I liked it when I read it a long time ago. I think of the pre-Russell era as "the early NBA" and Russell's career as sort of the "classical NBA" and that NBA 50 team barely had any early NBA players on it because everyone agreed that the players who came after were so much better. Lots of them have died in the last 20 years, but Cousy, Russell, Pettit, and Sam Jones are still alive. I remember that book having an interesting section about Paul Arizin, who I hadn't known anything about, but who won a couple scoring titles in the '50s and sort of bridged the eras.
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