![]() ![]() "The game is overexposed," Halberstam says. Once there was Wilt now the NBA seems to be dying on the vine. "Not just in the number of whites, but in the way it is played," Halberstam says. And with the television audience predominantly white, clearly it is a whiter game. The college game - more disciplined, seemingly more innocent, certainly more intense because of its shorter schedule - seems to be a sounder television draw. Attendance and television ratings are down. Halberstam is a fan of pro basketball, which he calls "the new American ballet," (Sure, Baryshnikov can jump - but can he play D?) and a fan of pro basketball players, whom he calls "the best athletes in the world." But as the game ends, a fan notes: "Another troubled game in a troubled league." ![]() David Halberstam, who spent a full season with the Portland Trail Blazers gathering material for his excellent book, "The Breaks of The Game," was one of them. ![]() On a cold, rainy night the San Antonio Spurs, perhaps the least attractive good team in the National Basketball Association, defeated the Washington Bullets, an ugly duckling of a team if ever there was one, 110-99, before 5,583 people. ![]()
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