Turnpike Team: A History of the New Jersey Nets, 1977-2012

A sense of impending doom surrounded the New Jersey Nets. No matter how well things were going for the perennial underdogs, something would go wrong sooner or later--injuries, bad trades, inner conflicts. But if the Nets were never a stable organization, it made following them as entertaining as it was painful. The team's 2012 move to Brooklyn was supposed to make a clean break with their past.

That past was in fact rich and eventful, filled with heroes, often unfairly vilified or underapp...