Basketball’s “Elastic Time” explored โขin Newโข Book, Reflectingโ Sport’s 1984 Spanishโ Boom
Madrid, spain -โ A new book,โค Tri, Tri,โ Triple by journalist Javier Maestro, delves into โฃteh surge of โคbasketball’s popularity in Spain following the nation’s silver medal win at the โ1984 Los Angeles Olympics.The book, published by Roca Editorial, reconstructs the era โthrough โthe recollections of sports journalists โwho covered the sport’s rapid growth,โ a period that saw schoolyards across the country transformed byโข the addition of mini-basketball courts.
Maestro’s work explores not only the past โcontext โคbut also the uniqueโ perception of time within the gameโข itself – the way seconds can โขstretch โadn compress during crucial moments, allowingโ for complex plays like last-second shots โor โค alley-oops. The book captures the excitement surroundingโค a period that ultimately fostered “one of the best teamsโ in the history of basketball.”
Tri, Tri, Triple is comprised of โstories, anecdotes, and insights into the personalities and passions that defined Spanish basketball’s golden age. It aims to encapsulateโ theโ “magic of basketball” -โ particularly the suspenseful arc ofโฃ the ball traveling towards the basket from the 6.75 line.
Spain lost theโ 1984 Olympic final to the United States 96-65.