{"product_id":"best-seat-in-the-house-a-basketball-memoir-9780609801918","title":"Best Seat in the House: A Basketball Memoir","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBest Seat in the House: A Basketball Memoir\u003c\/strong\u003e by Lee, Spike. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780609801918.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBest Seat in the House, Spike Lees evocative and compelling basketball memoir, interweaves several journeys over a course of thirty years. The first is professional basketballs metamorphosis from a fringe sport to the big-money spectacle it is today, filled with outrageously inflated salaries and egos. The other journey is that of Shelton Jackson Lee himself, who has gone from a skinny kid playing ball on the streets of Brooklyn, sneaking into Madison Square Garden to watch his beloved Knicks, to a student at Morehouse College and NYU film school, to a world-renowned film director and hoops fan.\n\nAlong the way Spike takes readers on entertaining and provocative detours, including a one-on-one with that other Brooklyn-born, film-directing, Garden-inhabiting hoops fan, Woody Allen; reviews of sports movies (Spike has seen them all, and the results arent pretty); an unusually candid interview with Michael Jordan; and a stark assessment of the role of African-American athletes--both in the big business of sports and in the broader culture.\n\nBut overall, Best Seat in the House is a love letter, from a passionate and unswervingly devoted fan, to the game and the team that took possession of Spikes adolescent heart--the New York Knickerbockers--and held it without a turnover through thirty years. of bang-ups and fouls, bad calls and air balls.\nBest Seat in the House is a slam dunk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Three Rivers Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44977358667829,"sku":"ByrdShop_0609801910","price":91.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780609801918_ddb7b635-dc3a-4a34-b4c2-a2fe5b7c992d.jpg?v=1778678282","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/best-seat-in-the-house-a-basketball-memoir-9780609801918","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}