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The Jordan Rules |  | Author: Sam Smith
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
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Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0671796666
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.323640977311
EAN: 9780671796662
ASIN: 0671796666
Publication Date: January 1, 1993
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A SUPER TEAM...A SUPERSTAR...A SUPER EGO The most gifted athlete ever to play the game, Michael Jordan rose to heights no basketball player had ever reached before. What drove Michael Jordan? The pursuit of team success...or of his own personal glory? The pursuit of excellence...or of his next multimillion-dollar endorsement? The flight of the man they call Air Jordan had been rocked by controversy. In The Jordan Rules, which chronicles the Chicago Bulls' first championship season, Sam Smith takes the #1 Bull by the horns to reveal the team behind the man...and the man behind the Madison Avenue smile. Here is the inside game, both on and off the court, including: Jordan's power struggles with management, from verbal attacks on the general manager to tantrums against his coach Behind-the-scenes feuds, as Jordan punches a teammate in practice and refuses to pass the ball in the crucial minutes of big games The players who competed with His Airness for Air Time -- Scottie Pippen, Horace Grant, Bill Cartwright -- telling their sides of the story A penetrating look at coach Phil Jackson, the former flower child who blossomed into one of the NBA's top motivators and who finally found a way to coax "Michael and the Jordanaires" to the their first title A provocative eyewitness account, The Jordan Rules delivers all the nonstop excitement, tension, and thrills of a championship season -- and an intense, fascinating portrait of the incomparable Michael Jordan.
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 One of the greatest basketball books ever written. July 28, 2010
J. Johnson (Gainesboro, TN USA)
I've read a lot of sports books and this is the best one I've ever read. It's about Michael Jordan and the 1990-91 Chicago Bulls. This is one of the funniest books I've ever read of any kind. It should be in the humor section at bookstores. Any NBA fan that followed the Bulls in this era would love this even if he or she hated reading books.
One of the funniest things I learned is that Michael Jordan referred to former Vanderbilt Commodore Will Purdue as "Will Vanderbilt". Jordan didn't think Will was good enough at baskeball to have "Purdue" in his name!
If you have a M.J., Chicago Bulls or just an NBA fan in your life you must buy them this book.
You won't put this book down July 15, 2010
B. Brown (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
This book covers the 1st Chicago Bulls championship season and is thoroughly enjoyable. This book does not focus on facts and figures and details of games. It is all about the interaction of the players, the coach and management. I did not want to put this book down. You will likely have heard many of the stories and you may not be overly surprised by many other stories in the book. But, you will not be bored and will be thoroughly entertained. In addition, I think you will be very surprised at many of the stories that were covered 20 years ago. Don't be afraid to buy this book. You'll be glad you did!
An excellent look at the inner workings of a championship team January 9, 2010
Omar Masood (Vineland, NJ)
This is a very good look at the inner workings of a basketball team over the course of a season. This does not cover any basketball team, though. This covers a championship team led by perhaps the greatest basketball player in history along with another legend in Scottie Pippen and the greatest coach ever in Phil Jackson. This is the first such book I have read and the amount of turbulence experienced by the 1991 Bulls was a surprise. How could a team win 61 games and romp through the playoffs with such inner instability?
Smith primarily covers the 1990-91 season but provides background on the previous seasons. Common themes are Jordan clashing with his coaches, players clashing with management, Jordan's lack of faith in his teammates and his relationship with them, Jerry Krause's eccentric nature, and Phil Jackson's amazing ability to steward the team through such troubled waters to the championship.
The book is titled "The Jordan Rules" but it is not just about Jordan. Smith spends some time talking about practically every player on the team, Phil Jackson, Jerry Krause, and Jerry Reinsdorf. He provides a solid context for analyzing and understanding how players in this drama think.
When this book was published it was the subject of much controversy because of its does not always show Michael Jordan in a favorable light. From reading the book you can conclude that Smith does not love Jordan. However, how much of that is an inherent dislike of Jordan or simply being turned off toward Jordan based on what he was told by players and coaches, who were the sources for the book? While not hagiographic, the book is not a hatchet job. The facts are there and you can reach your own conclusion. You can interpret Jordan as a jerk or simply driven by a desire to win. Smith does show the positive sides of Jordan too, such as Jordan's tenderness with children and his passion to excel. All in all I consider this book an asset to basketball history.
 THE JORDAN RULES WERE BECAUSE JORDAN RULED March 2, 2009
Kevin Mattingly (Harrisburg, IL USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
We can look back now and it is almost humorous that in his first six years in the league it was widely claimed that Micheal Jordan would never win a championship due to his high scoring, lack of a "supporting cast" as Jordan called them, and a selfish unwillingness to give up the ball. This book details the Bulls first of SIX championship runs with Jordan.
It is a character study of a whole team and it's management not merely Jordan from whom the book gets its title. "The Jordan Rules" have a double meaning. On one hand it was a particular defense that the Pistons used to contain Jordan and beat the Bulls during games and on the other hand it refers to the unilateral preferential treatment that Jordan received and that his teammates resented.
It should be noted that the year this book covers was Phil Jackson's first year as the coach of the Bulls and he implemented the triangle offense to try to include more players. Jackson is also demonstrated to use his psychology on many of his players to get them to play at a higher level and to often sway them into doing what is best for the team.
This covers Jordan mania, the entire season both on the court and off, and it also does a pretty good job of giving you insights into the rest of the Bulls players (Pippen, Grant, Armstrong, Cartwright, etc) and how most of them were miserable that season and the individual issues that they each faced.
This is still a fantastic sports book and it is now a piece of history considering all of the titles the Bulls were to win it its wake. I recommend this book for any sports fan, not just basketball fans.
Kevin W. Mattingly
Harrisburg Times.
 Behind the scenes look at MJ and the bulls August 21, 2007
Justin W. Thole (Grand Rapids, MI)
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
The book shows just how tough life in the NBA can be, especially when you have a guy like MJ, a selfish ball-hog and control freak. After reading the book, any liking I had for MJ has since vanished. Behind the scenes, the guy is selfish, narcisistic, hyper-competitive person who must win at EVERYTHING he does, and have things HIS way all the time. He even went so far as to never lift weights in the same weight room as the team for fear that one of the players might be able to lift more weight than him. Boo hoo! Imagine that Michael! There might be someone actually stronger than you.
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