Elevated: The Global Rise of the N.B.A.

A courtside seat to four decades of professional basketball.Elevated, edited by Hall of Fame honoree Harvey Araton, traces basketball's sustained boom from Magic and Bird to the present. Both the iconic moments and those quieter, but no less meaningful times in between are here, from Wise riding around Los Angeles with a young Kobe Bryant on the eve of his first All-Star Game, to Stein declaring Giannis Antetokounmpo's "unspeakable greatness" to the world in a riveting profile.

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