The Punch
One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever
by John Feinstein
384 pages· 2002· ISBN 9780759527386
About
When an on-court fight broke out between the Houston Rockets and the LA Lakers just before Christmas 1977, Rudy Tomjanovitch raced to break it up. He was met by Kermit Washington's fist. This is the story of how one punch changed two lives, the NBA and how we think about basketball, forever.
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