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Summary: person above
Review: Sports keep people in shape, make them live longer. You are probably an overwieght slob that never got picked for any sports in highschool. Sports and competition benefit society and help keep the youngsters in shape. go run.
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Summary: Sheds Light
Review: This book has been researched well and reports the facts on the "players" in the NBA. The league needs to get its act together and clean itself of the criminals and potential criminals that comprise it.
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Summary: A step into the unknown!
Review: This book was an eye opener to anyone who down plays the crime involved in basketball, just to bring out the light of one's love for basketball. It was entertaining, knowledgable and interesting. It's a book that is hard to put down, which is hard to say now a days, because half the books published aren't interesting. It brings a whole new look upon the basketball world and the players they pay. Loved the book!!
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Summary: A good book
Review: This is a good, solid, accurate book. It doesn't cast many blanket statements or make the mistake of making wild proclamations (unlike the three reviewers below me). The points it makes are valid, and it told me much more than what I already suspected. The celebrity status of players in the NBA has given many of them the feeling that they are above the rules that apply to normal men. More than the rules and regulations must alter for crime among NBA players to fall. American society must change. The hero-worshipping must stop.To those who decry sport and label it as "money and drugs and nothing else" -- please don't fill these pages with ill-thought, irrellevant generalisations. Spew your cynical, angry claptrap elsewhere. Sport brings happiness to hundreds of millions across the world. It is some respite from the drudgery of everyday life. It has a cathartic effect. It shows us man's great potential. Some sportsmen can be heroes. Many give millions to charity (take Manute Bol -- he gave everything he had to the suffering Sudanese Christians), and some can uplift entire cities and show them what man is capable of. Only some sportsmen fall into crime. Basketballers are paid millions because America is a capitalist country. People are paid relative to the scarcity of their skills. There may be more heroic firemen than there are heroic basketballers, but the way the market works makes the basketballers the millionaires.
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Summary: Obviously Well Researched, But Missing Something
Review: While Out of Bounds is a well-researched book, the author (Jeff Benedict) succumbs to the flaw in logic known as the overextended generalization. The book's overall premise -- that NBA players as a whole are a bad brood -- is not supported by the information presented. There are some -- and I repeat, some -- compelling stories of crime and decadence in the book. (Examples: the Ruben Patterson and Atlanta Gold Club stories.) But this does not add up to a basis for castigating the NBA as a whole. Some of the incidents that Benedict describes are not worth the effort spent to discuss them. Example: the incident in Portland where Scottie Pippen threw water in an obnoxious fan's face. So what? This incident does not prove Benedict's premise, yet it was one of the first incidents discussed in the book. The author also takes aim at lawyers (and agents) who represented players in the incidents discussed in the book. But Benedict himself is a lawyer, and he knows full well that lawyers are responsible under the law to zealously represent their clients. Benedict seems disturbed that NBA players can buy high quality legal advice. Well, again, so what? High profile businesspeople do the same. Martha Stewart, Dennis Kozlowski, and Frank Quattrone all come to mind. Why aren't NBA stars entitled to obtain the same high quality legal advice? Overall, Out of Bounds weaves together some interesting and disturbing stories. But those stories do not add up to the support needed to prove Benedict's larger premise.
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