Overview
From a top NBA reporter, a look at the fast-moving, deal-making, often brutal world that built an NBA dynasty--the Golden State Warriors--and now perhaps threatens to break it apart.The Golden State Warriors are the envy of the modern NBA. Chasing their third consecutive championship, they have assembled an incredible wealth of athletic talent, lead the league in merchandise sales, and are planning to move into a glitzy new arena next season. Their owner, Joe Lacob, regularly hosts the top CEOs and influencers of Silicon Valley in his box, fashioning himself into one of the most powerful men in the world. Yet inside the organization, there is considerably more strife. In this breakthrough work of reportage, star NBA reporter Ethan Sherwood Strauss investigates the team's culture, its financial ambitions and struggles, and the toll that being a super-team can take. In so doing, he not only rewrites the story of the Warriors, but reveals how the Darwinian business of NBA basketball really works. Reconstructing the deals that lured Steph Curry away from Nike and Kevin Durant away from Oklahoma City, Strauss shows how the smallest mistakes can define success or failure for years. And, as he looks ahead to the 2020 season, Strauss ponders whether this organization can survive its own ambitions. Written with great personality and remarkable breadth, The Victory Machine shows what it takes to win when you are constantly under siege.
Full Product Details
Author: Ethan Sherwood Strauss
Publisher: Public Affairs
Imprint: Public Affairs
ISBN: 9781549131868
ISBN 10: 1549131869
Publication Date: 14 April 2020
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The Victory Machine isn't a romantic look at the Golden State Warriors dynasty, but it gets to the human core of success and asks the reader to question everything he or she knew about sports. -- Bomani Jones, cohost of High Noon An unvarnished inside account of the Golden State Warriors, from the driven, resolute owner who bought them to the capricious, conflicted superstar who ultimately left them. A must-read for NBA fans. -- Jackie MacMullan, senior ESPN writer and Hall of Fame basketball commentator Strauss skillfully captures a team peaking as change is taking place all around them and pulls the curtain aside on the often unsavory realities of what it means to succeed in the NBA. -- Library Journal
Strauss skillfully captures a team peaking as change is taking place all around them and pulls the curtain aside on the often unsavory realities of what it means to succeed in the NBA. -- Library Journal An unvarnished inside account of the Golden State Warriors, from the driven, resolute owner who bought them to the capricious, conflicted superstar who ultimately left them. A must-read for NBA fans. -- Jackie MacMullan, senior ESPN writer and Hall of Fame basketball commentator The Victory Machine isn't a romantic look at the Golden State Warriors dynasty, but it gets to the human core of success and asks the reader to question everything he or she knew about sports. -- Bomani Jones, cohost of High Noon
Author Information
Ethan Sherwood Strauss is a Golden State Warriors beat reporter for The Athletic. Before that, he held the same role for ESPN. He hosts a podcast, House of Strauss, and is a frequent guest on Slate's Hang Up and Listen sports podcast. His articles have appeared in numerous outlets including Slate, Salon, FiveThirtyEight, Huffington Post, and more.
