A chronicle of the team's fifth championship season--one that tested the ability of coach Phil Jackson to keep his team together--includes interviews with players and management
Roland Lazenby is an American sportswriter and educator.
Lazenby has written more than five dozen nonfiction books, mainly about basketball and American football. He has also contributed articles to magazines and newspapers.
Lazenby's book Bull Run! was named Sports Book of the Year for 1997 by the Independent Publishers Association.
Lazenby studied at Virginia Military Institute and Hollins University, and has been a member of Virginia Tech's Department of Communication and Radford University's School of Communication. A group of students from his media writing class compiled the book April 16th: Virginia Tech Remembers (2007), an account of the Virginia Tech massacre. Lazenby served as editor.
In 2005, Lazenby and Andrew Mager created Planet Blacksburg, a student organization that focuses on new media, journalism, and publishing.
As always, Roland Lazenby's prose in sports chronicles is flawless: rich, entertaining and fluid. Add Bill Smith's photography, with plenty of behind-the-scenes material and you get a sports book of the finest grade. As a plus, the front cover is graced by the art of Annie Leibovitz, one of the best portrait photographers. I think this is a must for all the Chicago Bulls' fans from the 90's.