Pistol Pete's Last Shot

[Ask any hardcore basketball bibliophile for his or her top 10 books of all-time on the pro game, and the chances are that David Halberstam’s The Breaks of the Game will make the final cut. If you don’t know Halberstam’s classic, published in 1981, it is his self-described immersion into “the world of professional basketball—the players, the coaches and…