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The Punch One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
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The Punch One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever Hardcover - 2002

by Feinstein, John.


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Christmas, 1977 and an on-court fight breaks out between the Houston Rockets and the LA Lakers. Rudy Tomjanovitch races to break it up and is met by Kermit Washington's fist, delivering one of the worst punches ever seen in sport. Basketball was changed for ever. Tomjanovitch was a Rockets all-star, 6'7 and white. The punch dislodged his skull from his head, leaving him needing years of surgery and therapy. Washington was an average player for the Lakers, 6'8 and one of six athletes in the history of the NCAA to be both an academic all-American and a basketball all-American. By all accounts an exemplary man - until the split-second in which he threw his arm forward and devastated his reputation. The fact that Washington is black hasn't helped his treatment in the press or public opinion and no team in the NBA will hire him as a coach. Meanwhile, Tomjanovitch is head coach of the Rockets and the US Olympic team. drastic response by the NBA, the conspiracy theories about the fight's origins and a story of how one man's mistake has haunted two good men for their entire adult lives.

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He had always worried about the scoreboards.

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  • Title The Punch One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
  • Author Feinstein, John.
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 432
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little, Brown, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date November 5, 2002
  • ISBN 9780316279727
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