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

by Rosen, Charley
ISBN: 9781583225622
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Overview

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.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Rosen, Charley
  • ISBN: 9781583225622
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.00 x 1.10
  • Number Of Pages: 432
  • Publication Year: 2002
Language: English