When the game was ours

Description:

With intimate, fly-on-the-wall detail, "When the Game Was Ours" transports readers to an electric era of basketball and reveals for the first time the inner workings of two players--Larry Bird and Earvin "Magic" Johnson--dead set on besting one another.

subjects: Basketball,  Basketball players,  Biography,  History,  Bird, larry, 1956-,  Johnson, earvin, 1959-,  Basketball, history,  Basketball, biography,  nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2009-11-22,  New York Times bestseller

People: Larry Bird (1956-),  Earvin Johnson (1959-)

Places: United States