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The Wizard of Odds: How Jack Molinas Nearly Destroyed the Game of Basketball

The Wizard of Odds: How Jack Molinas Nearly Destroyed the Game of Basketball

Charley Rosen
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In The Wizard of Odds, renowned and best-selling basketball writer Charley Rosen brings us for the first time the full life story of Jack Molinas, one of the greatest basketball players of his era, a man whose gambling addiction and hubris caused his ultimate demise. Drawing on numerous, previously unavailable first-person accounts, including Jack Molinas's own journal and trial transcripts, Rosen presents the true saga of a man who perhaps better than anyone around him understood the weaknesses of the system in which he lived--so much so that he convinced himself that he could manipulate that system to his advantage with total impunity, in a life's journey that took him from NBA play to the Mafia and the pornographic film industry, and to an ultimate tragic destiny.
Language
English
Pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Release
December 03, 2002
ISBN
1583225625
ISBN 13
9781583225622

The Wizard of Odds: How Jack Molinas Nearly Destroyed the Game of Basketball

Charley Rosen
3.7/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
In The Wizard of Odds, renowned and best-selling basketball writer Charley Rosen brings us for the first time the full life story of Jack Molinas, one of the greatest basketball players of his era, a man whose gambling addiction and hubris caused his ultimate demise. Drawing on numerous, previously unavailable first-person accounts, including Jack Molinas's own journal and trial transcripts, Rosen presents the true saga of a man who perhaps better than anyone around him understood the weaknesses of the system in which he lived--so much so that he convinced himself that he could manipulate that system to his advantage with total impunity, in a life's journey that took him from NBA play to the Mafia and the pornographic film industry, and to an ultimate tragic destiny.
Language
English
Pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Release
December 03, 2002
ISBN
1583225625
ISBN 13
9781583225622

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