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The Wizard of Odds: How Jack Molinas Nearly Destroyed the Game of Basketball

In The Wizard of Odds, renowned and best-selling basketball writer Charley Rosen brings us for the first time the full life story of Jack Molinas, one of the greatest basketball players of his era, a man whose gambling addiction and hubris caused his ultimate demise. Drawing on numerous, previously unavailable first-person accounts, including Jack Molinas's own journal and trial transcripts, Rosen presents the true saga of a man who perhaps better than anyone around him understood the weaknesses of the system in which he lived — so much so that he convinced himself that he could manipulate that system to his advantage with total impunity, in a life's journey that took him from NBA play to the Mafia and the pornographic film industry, and to an ultimate tragic destiny.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 432
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781583225622
  • Genres
  • sports
  • Release date
  • 2002