Tom’s Fire Book Chat: Reading about Michael Jordan, thinking about Stephen Curry

I mentioned on my recent appearance on the Golden State of Mindcast that I recently read David Halberstam’s book on the 1998 Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan, Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made.

Much like The Breaks of the Game, his legendary book about the late-1970s Portland Trail Blazers, Halberstam used the opportunity to write about that transcendent Bulls team as a way of thinking about the league at that moment. Halberstam’s book on Jordan and the Bulls enables him to look at the NBA on the cusp of the 1999 lock-out and everything that had happened since Jordan entered the league.

Given that he was a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, it goes without saying that…