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Title	:	The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
Author	:	John Feinstein
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 366 pages
Published	:	November 5th 2002 by Little, Brown
Categories	:	Sports. Nonfiction. Basketball. Biography. History

The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever Hardcover | Pages: 366 pages

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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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Original Title:	The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
ISBN:	0316279722 (ISBN13: 9780316279727)
Edition Language:	English

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As a power forward for the Los Angeles Lakers in the mid- to late '70s, Kermit Washington was the type of player whose value couldn't be measured in numbers. As a 6'8", 240-pound block of muscle, he dutifully cleaned up the boards and threw in the occasional short-range bucket, but he was better known as an "enforcer," someone whose job was to play tough defense, set hard picks, and, most of all, protect the team's key scorer. In Washington's case, the prized and vulnerable star was Kareem

What did I think of "THE PUNCH"? I think this is a okay book. This book taught me a lot of stuff about the NBA. This book was about the event that changed basketball. This book is a explanation for a lot of things. This book is something I could have read again based on the quality of it.Also I think that if the NBA was like this now it would not be as electrifying. This incident was between Kevin Kunnett, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,and Kermit Washington. It started off subtle but it got nasty. I will

I loved this book. I think the author did a fine job of presenting both perspectives while showing the requisite sympathy for Rudy T.

Book Review By : Ceashia Miller Book Title: The Punch Book Author : John Feinstein Main Idea - The main idea of this book , is to explain what had actually taken place between Tom & Kermit during their NBA career. Attention Grabber - Did you know that the force of the punch Kermit Washington Threw To Tomjanovichs face , forced his skull to move out of place. Body - December 1977 when a fistfight broke out on the court between the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers , Kermit

Such a good book. I read this a while ago, but basically this book is about the worst fight ever in NBA history, in 1977, in a game between the Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Lakers. The NBA was rampant with fights and drugs at the time, and this was kind of the culmination of the escalation of this period. Rudy Tomjanovich, a star forward for the Rockets was entangled with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the star for the Lakers. Kevin Kunnert, an enforcer/forward with the Rockets set out to break it up

I cried in the first five pages. Then proceeded to cry throughout the next thirty...I am speechless about the severity, the life changing event for Washington and Tomjanovich and then other people in and around this one moment, the ultimate wrong place at the wrong time and bad, bad luck. It's detailed and well researched. I don't know how many kids can handle this book. It's non-fiction and very detailed so I see many kids giving up because they'll get bored. I wouldn't say it's just for

This book looks at an incident between Kermit Washington and Rudy T. How this event that happened between these two people altered both of their lives.