Contents

Preface

Prologue: December 27, 1985—Moonachie, New Jersey

1. Living on Dreams

2. Living the Dream

3. Big Man in the Big Apple

4. To Fix or Not to Fix, That Was the Question

5. Moving from Coast to Coast to Coast

6. Playing It Straight . . . for a While

7. Life after Death

8. The Great Migration in Black and White

9. Back in the USA

10. The View from the Bench

11. Sunk Once More

12. The Wild, Wild West

13. The Most Shameful Playoff Series in the History of Professional Basketball

Epilogue: Whither Sugar Ray?

A Note on Sources