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Basketball Empire – Lindsay Sarah Kranoff with Alexander Wolff
October 13, 2023 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Free
Join us for a fascinating talk of basketball and history as Alexander Wolff, interviews Lindsay Sarah Kranoff about her new book Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA.
How and why did France become one of the leading pipelines of top talent to the NBA, WNBA, and NCAA? What this has meant for the league and the players themselves? Going behind the scenes, Krasnoff follows the generations of men and women who, since 1950, have followed their passion for the game to create a basketball breeding ground.
The National Basketball Association (NBA), founded over 75 years ago, is watched worldwide and nearly a third of the players were born and trained overseas. Krasnoff shows how basketball’s global takeover could not have happened without France, exploring its interactions with the United States and colonial legacies with francophone Africa and the Afro-Caribbean. Taking us back to the very beginnings of basketball, she shows how remnants of empire have shaped the game.
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Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff is a historian, writer, and consultant specializing in the history of global sport, communications, and diplomacy. She has written on global sport for CNN International, The Washington Post and The New Yorker, amongst other publications, and is an Adjunct Instructor with New York University’s Tisch Institute for Global Sport. She holds a PhD in History from City University of New York, USA, an MA in Journalism and French Studies from NYU, USA, and a BA in International Affairs from The George Washington University, USA.
Alexander Wolff spent thirty-six years on staff at Sports Illustrated. He is author or editor of nine books, including the New York Times bestseller Raw Recruits and Big Game, Small World. A former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton, he lives with his family in Vermont.
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Free and open to the public, this event is co-hosted by the Yankee Bookshop who will be on hand with books for purchase and signing.
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