Unfinished Business: On and Off the Court with the 1990-91 Boston Celtics
Jack McCallum had inside access to the 1990-91 Boston Celtics, a team trying to squeeze one more contender season out of Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, and Robert Parish. He captures the locker room dynamic under Chris Ford, the tension between veterans and role players, and the toll that back injuries and end of career decisions took on Bird in particular. McCallum's prose is unshowy and observant, and he brings out the humor and grievance that flow through a long NBA schedule. The book was written before the Celtics dynasty finally collapsed, so it has the texture of a late night conversation before an era ends. It is a favorite among Celtics fans and among readers who love inside team accounts.
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Sports Illustrated's Jack McCallum spends a season inside the aging Larry Bird era Celtics.
Simmons, a lifelong Celtics diehard, has called it his favorite book about that team on his podcast and in The Book of Basketball, citing McCallum's access and honesty about Bird's decline.
It helps, but McCallum's writing about aging athletes and workplace culture translates to any long time NBA reader.
Unfinished Business: On and Off the Court with the 1990-91 Boston Celtics was written by Jack McCallum, published in 1992 by Ballantine Books.
Unfinished Business: On and Off the Court with the 1990-91 Boston Celtics is 320 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Unfinished Business: On and Off the Court with the 1990-91 Boston Celtics takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Unfinished Business: On and Off the Court with the 1990-91 Boston Celtics is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
