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With unerring insight into the deeper truths of professional sports, John Feinstein explores in riveting detail what happened one night in December 1977 when, as a fistfight broke out on the court between the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers, Kermit Washington delivered a punch that practically killed All-Star Rudy Tomjanovich. The punch-now legendary in the history of American sports-radically changed the trajectory of both men's lives and reverberates throughout the National Basketball Association even today. Feinstein's compelling investigation of the single cataclysmic incident and its own after-math casts a light on the NBA's darkest secrets, revealing the real price men pay when they choose a profession in sports.