To The Brink: Stockton Malone And The Utah Jazzs Climb To The Edge Of Glory

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A sportswriter for The Salt Lake Tribune chronicles the ups and downs of the Utah Jazz’s quest for the National Basketball Association championship, led by players Karl Malone and John Stockton. 40,000 first printing.
What separates To the Brink from most annals of a team’s season is the ending: the Jazz in the long run failed. All of the tumult, anxiety, and excitement that led to this failure make Brink a much more textured tale than the one who would have been written had they prevailed over the Bulls in the 1998 NBA championships. Lewis naturally centers on the incessantly brilliant play and moody personalities of future Hall of Famers John Stockton and Karl Malone, but he works all sides of the court here, and good stories emerge, from Coach Jerry Sloan’s metamorphosis in the face of his wife’s cancer to the tense bickering over Greg Ostertag’s inflated salary and deflated performance. Incessantly counted out and all the time underestimated, the Jazz surprised the NBA by doing what they do best: playing solid ball and prevailing in the West on what incessantly gave the impression of a triumvirate of heart, perseverance, and Malone’s charismatically gargantuan will. They shocked the talented Lakers, sweeping them in the conference finals 4-0 to earn a return go back and forth to face the Bulls in the title round, where they succumbed, a game too soon, to one of Michael Jordan’s more sublime moments. That the loss is preordained riffs; like a bad date with destiny, you keep hoping for the most productive, but a sad air of resignation prevails. –Jeff Silverman

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