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The LAST BANNER : The Story of the 1985-86 Celtics and the NBA's Greatest Team of All Time

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Media:	Hardcover
Author:	Peter May
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Release date:	16 December, 1996

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When the NBA Was the NBA
This book chronicles the 1985-86 Celtics--a team that the author thinks would beat any team before or since in the NBA. I agree with him--it's nauseating to hear people say with a straight face that the champions of today's expansion-diluted era could beat Bird, McHale, D.J., Ainge, and The Chief. If you pine for the days when the NBA was filled with teams that could score in triple digits and when the NBA Finals was an event that you looked forward to with relish every year, read this book.
WELL WRITTEN
THIS IS A VERY SIMPLE AND DOWN TO EARTH BOOK. I REALLY ENJOYED THIS BOOK. IT DOES A GOOD JOB GOING THROUGH THIS EXCITING SEASON WITH THE CELTICS LAST CHAMPIONSHIP. IT DOESN'T WASTE TIME AND STAYS ON TARGET ALL THE WAY. A GOOD INSIGHT ON MANY OF THE PLAYERS. ALSO A GOOD BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK AT HOW SOME TRADES WERE MADE. ABOVE ALL I ENJOYED HOW EACH MEMBER WAS BROUGHT TO THE TEAM AND HOW EACH CONTRIBUTED TO THE ULTIMATE GOAL. A VERY GOOD READ. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Pointless and flat
It was with enthusiasm that I bought this book on my favorite Celtics. What a disappointment. The book is for some reason said to be a book about the greatest Celtics TEAM ever but it never really captures the TEAM concept as the author skillfully plots the personal progress of individual players. It is his fault coompletely that the players who should have been the heroes of this book fade into the background. Bird, McHale and Johnson never get the ink that Ainge and Walton get. The author misses the point while absorbing himself in the I's instead of the WE. What he finally ends up with is exactly that: Story of individuals but not a story of a team. The question remains unanswered, WHY did he write this book? Surely for the money that Celtic will forever generate but not for the Celtics themselves or TEAM basketball in general. Next time the author thinks about writing a book with the same method, he should write a story about the Chris Webber or Steve Marbury teams since both of those players think of themselves first and of the team second.