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Top of the World: The Inside Story of the Boston Celtics' Amazing One-Year Turnaround to Become NBA Champions |  | Author: Peter May
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 560123
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0306818108
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3230973
EAN: 9780306818103
ASIN: 0306818108
Publication Date: October 28, 2008
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Product Description
I’m on top of the world,” shouted NBA Defensive Player of the Year Kevin Garnett, after the Boston Celtics clinched their league-leading 17th NBA championship over their archrival, the Kobe Bryant-led Los Angeles Lakers. In Top of the World, Peter May chronicles the remarkable 2008 championship run of the team in green—their first in over twenty years. With the greatest single-season turnaround in NBA history, the Celtics went from the second-worst record last year to the best record this year. May charts the pivotal moments: from losing out on the Number 1 and Number 2 pick in last year’s draft lottery to swinging trades for future Hall of Famers Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen; from winning Game 4 of the Finals with one of the greatest come-from-behind victories in NBA Finals history to capping off their remarkable season with another championship banner.
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 Awesome book! October 13, 2009
A. T. Syed (Boston, MA)
Great inside look into the championship season. If you want to read something that brings together all the links to an amazing season, read it!
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Money Honey (Boston, MA)
Top of the World focuses on the Boston Celtics' remarkable move from worst to first in 2008. The book really focuses on the 16 months that helped shape the new Celtics team. Starting from the disappointment of the draft and moving through each notable move made by the organization the author provides additional insights into the people who made it happen. I especially enjoyed learning about the players who aren't quite as high profile including Glen "Big Baby" Davis, Leon Powe, and Eddie House. The reader is given the complete picture of the team's dynamic. A fun and easy read for Boston Celtics' fans.
 A not so title-worthy account March 23, 2009
Chris (Longwood, FL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a big Boston Celtics fan, I was disappointed with Peter May's account of their 2007-08 championship run and their one-year transformation from the 2nd worst team in the NBA to title holder. It is short and easy-to-read, but much of it reads like a bunch of newspaper game stories strung together. There is little to no insight into what made the quickly-assembled team successful or how the personal relationships/chemistry of the team was formed. There are some good background accounts of the personalities that made up the team, but most of the book is a just-the-facts retelling of the season, with a few interesting anecdotes sprinkled in. May's writing is quite bland, and the concluding chapter on the Finals falls flat and feels rushed. The book was released with a quick turnaround and you can tell. Overall, the book does not match the great subject material it chronicles.
What Boston Was Waiting For March 9, 2009
John Galluzzo (Weymouth, Massachusetts)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Living through a world championship season as a fan and re-living it can be quite different animals. Unless the chronicler reviewing the season - in this case that of the 2007-08 basketball season - hits the high notes and low notes correctly, the whole experience can come off as flat.
May does more than hit the notes. This book is a road map to the championship of the National Basketball Association, an amazing inter-weaving of diverse paths that led through high schools and colleges, off the streets and into the arenas of the pro level. In the transitory world of the NBA, where rosters are overturned on a regular basis as much as 50%, this story shows how all the right pieces fell into all the right places in time to bring a championship to Boston.
Good Quick Read and informative January 29, 2009
J. Carbone (Boston)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this book to an enjoyable quick read. I really liked the background the book gives you on the key Celtics players. I found Kendrick Perkins early life to be very interesting. Also, who almost became the Celtics assistant coach. Being a Celtics fan living in Boston and watching all the games I found the pages devoted to reliving the playoffs and finals a bit too soon for me but again I expected that when I bought the book. If you want to learn more about all the hard work it took to get the Celtics back on top this book is a great way to do that.
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