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The Wizard of Odds: How Jack Molinas Almost Destroyed the Game of Basketball |  | Author: Charley Rosen
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Sales Rank: 715187
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 432
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 6 x 1.2 x 9
ISBN: 1583225625
EAN: 9781583225622
ASIN: 1583225625
Publication Date: December 3, 2002
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Product Description
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.
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