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I’m on top of the world,” shouted NBA Defensive Player of the Year Kevin Garnett, after the Boston Celtics clinched their league-leading 17th NBA championship over their archrival, the Kobe Bryant-led Los Angeles Lakers. In Top of the World, Peter May chronicles the remarkable 2008 championship run of the team in green—their first in over twenty years. With the greatest single-season turnaround in NBA history, the Celtics went from the second-worst record last year to the best record this year. May charts the pivotal moments: from losing out on the Number 1 and Number 2 pick in last year’s draft lottery to swinging trades for future Hall of Famers Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen; from winning Game 4 of the Finals with one of the greatest come-from-behind victories in NBA Finals history to capping off their remarkable season with another championship banner.
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Customer Reviews:
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 Top of the World! November 25, 2008
Sean R. (Boston, MA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For any Celtics fan, this is a great read. To see that the acquisition of Allen and Garnett was equal parts persistence, plan, and luck gives any Celtics fan hope that another championship is within reach with the current ownership and management. Thanks to Peter May for delivering!
Celtics story offers obvious parallels for life December 1, 2008
Rob Byrnes (Geneva, Illinois)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Rather than simply retell the details of specific games of the season, Peter May offers rare insight into the on and off-court orchestration of a championship season. From ownership to management to coaches to the players themselves - a near complete change from major loser to NBA champion - and here's how it was done in only one season !! It also is a great story of how maximum effort and selfless team play in basketball can produce a champion with obvious parallels for life. Any true sports fan - not only Boston fans - will find this a memorable and rewarding read and one that celebrates teamwork over the ever so prevalent "me-first" attitude in sports today.
Top of the World December 2, 2008
Joseph Barba (Pollock Pines, CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Top of the World provides a great insight into the 2008 Celtics' championship season. You get to know the players and their backgrounds better. The book is well written, easy to read, sustains interest, and hits the important issues. It is a great companion to the DVDs of the playoffs and the team. Highly recommended for true Celtic fans.
Good Quick Read and informative January 29, 2009
J. Carbone (Boston)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this book to an enjoyable quick read. I really liked the background the book gives you on the key Celtics players. I found Kendrick Perkins early life to be very interesting. Also, who almost became the Celtics assistant coach. Being a Celtics fan living in Boston and watching all the games I found the pages devoted to reliving the playoffs and finals a bit too soon for me but again I expected that when I bought the book. If you want to learn more about all the hard work it took to get the Celtics back on top this book is a great way to do that.
What Boston Was Waiting For March 9, 2009
John Galluzzo (Weymouth, Massachusetts)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Living through a world championship season as a fan and re-living it can be quite different animals. Unless the chronicler reviewing the season - in this case that of the 2007-08 basketball season - hits the high notes and low notes correctly, the whole experience can come off as flat.
May does more than hit the notes. This book is a road map to the championship of the National Basketball Association, an amazing inter-weaving of diverse paths that led through high schools and colleges, off the streets and into the arenas of the pro level. In the transitory world of the NBA, where rosters are overturned on a regular basis as much as 50%, this story shows how all the right pieces fell into all the right places in time to bring a championship to Boston.
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