Harvey Araton is een gerenommeerd sportjournalist en auteur, bekend om zijn inzichtelijke verkenningen van basketbal en de bredere sportwereld. Zijn schrijfstijl blinkt uit in het vastleggen van de geest van een tijdperk en de persoonlijkheden die het sportlandschap hebben gevormd. Door zijn werken biedt hij lezers niet alleen feiten, maar ook de emoties en verhalen die cruciale momenten in de sportgeschiedenis definiëren. Zijn reportages en columns worden gewaardeerd om hun intelligentie en diepgang.
"The moving story of a bond between sportswriter and fan that was forged in a shared love of basketball and grew over several decades into an extraordinary friendship that sees both through the trials of their later years"-- Provided by publisher
Howard Beck. Marc Stein. Jonathan Abrams. Chris Broussard. Ira Berkow. George Vecsey. Mike Wise. Selena Roberts. Lee Jenkins. All have graced the pages of The New York Times, entertaining readers with their probing coverage of the N.B.A.: a stage on which spectacular athletes perform against a backdrop of continuous social change. Now, their work and more is collected in a new volume, edited and annotated by Hall of Fame honoree Harvey Araton, tracing basketball's sustained boom from Magic and Bird to the present. Elevated provides a courtside seat to four decades of professional basketball. Both the iconic moments and those quieter, but no less meaningful times in between are here, from Wise riding around Los Angeles with a young Kobe Bryant on the eve of his first All-Star Game, to Stein declaring Giannis Antetokounmpo's "unspeakable greatness" to the world in a riveting profile. Rather than simply preserving the past, Elevated reexamines and further illuminates hoops history. This expertly curated collection features exclusive new writing by Araton and postscripts from the original journalists, revealing candid exchanges with NBA greats that didn't make the original newspaper edit and tracing the rise of a worldwide phenomenon from a contemporary vantage point.