Original print edition published by Alfred A. Knopf copyright © 1981 by David Halberstam
Published in 2009 by Hyperion
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Sports Illustrated for permission to reprint from “All Dressed Up, Nowhere to Go,” by Paul Zimmerman. Reprinted courtesy of Sports Illustrated from the November 26, 1979, issue. © 1979 Time Inc.
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The Library of Congress has catalogued the Hyperion print edition of this book as follows:
Halberstam, David.
The breaks of the game / David Halberstam.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1981.
ISBN 978-1-4013-0972-5
1. Portland Trail Blazers (Basketball team) I. Title.
GV885.52.P67H34 2009
796.323'640979549—dc22
2008051121
eBook Edition ISBN: 978-1-4013-0519-2
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