![]() ![]() What Portland's decline reflected was as usual not only the extraordinarily delicate chemistry of winning teams in a game where talent was so equally (some Of contemporary National Basketball Association teams to repeat as champions. The Trailblazers, an extraordinary championship team three seasons earlier, were still suffering in the fall of 1979 from the symptomatic inability Hy did David Halberstam (''The Best and the Brightest,'' ''The Powers That Be'') pick the Portland TrailblazersĪs the team he would live and travel with during the 1979-80 season for his book on professional basketball? He never spells out a specific reason, though one suspects it was largely because of Portland's willingness to be accessible.ĭespite their dependence on the news media, professional sports teams are not always generous about letting reporters go behind the scenes.īut whether the choice of Portland was serendipitous or by design, it turns out to have been a very good one. ![]() NovemThe Breaks of the Game By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT ![]()
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