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The bestselling author of Dream Team tells the interconnected stories of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors and the early-1970s Los Angeles Lakers, two extraordinary teams playing in extraordinary times and linked by one extraordinary man: Jerry West. During their 1971-72 championship season, the L.A. Lakers won thirty-three games in a row, a streak that still stands as the longest and greatest in the history of American professional sports. It was a run of uninterrupted dominance that predated by decades the overwhelming firepower of today's Warriors, a revolutionary team whose recent seasons include some record-threatening win streaks of their own. In Golden Days, acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum uses these two teams - the Jerry West/Wilt Chamberlain/Elgin Baylor Lakers and the Stephen Curry/Kevin Durant/Draymond Green Warriors - to trace the dynamic history of the National Basketball Association, which for much of the last half-century has marched memorably through the state of California.
About the Author
--My podcast, THE DREAM TEAM TAPES, got 2.5 million downloads. You can Google it and hear it. Have a couple other podcast ideas, also.--My book, GOLDEN DAYS, was about the Jerry West-Wilt Chamberlain Lakers who won 33 straight games and the modern Golden State Warriors, the standard for contemporary excellence.--Our family used to have two waverunners that I drove too wildly and served as a poor example for my sons, who also drove too wildly. We don't have them anymore.--My wife is smarter than I. One of my sons (Chris) is a Spanish translator and the other (Jamie) is a professor of sociology and both are also smarter than I. Jamie's book, "Worked Over," is now available.--I'm not sure what else I would've done if I weren't a journalist. I always dreamed about having a TastyKake route at the Jersey shore. I am at the shore much of the summer but have no route, though I do enjoy Tastykakes.--I played a lot of pickup basketball until I tore my Achilles. Just had a knee replacement, too. But other than that I'm the Rock. Possible exaggeration.--Though it is more in the romantic tradition of journalism to have an eccentric two-fingered typing style, I type well, owing to a background in piano and a typing class in high school. I now suck at the piano. And I would probably suck at high school if I went back.--I will talk about my four grandkids all day. Their names are Oliver, Eudora, Zev and Asa. Another one is due in November.--My golf game is just good enough to be ultimately disappointing.--I count myself lucky to have been covering the NBA in the 1980s and early 2000s.
