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Memphis Hoops: Race and Basketball in the Bluff City,1968-1997

By (author) Keith Brian Wood

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Memphis Hoops tells the story of basketball in Tennesseeâ€™s southwestern-most metropolis following the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Keith Brian Wood examines the city through the lens of the Memphis State University basketball team and its star player-turned-coach Larry Finch. Finch, a Memphis native and the first highly recruited black player signed by Memphis State, helped the team make the 1973 NCAA championship game in his senior year. In an era when colleges in the south began to integrate their basketball programs, the city of Memphis embraced its flagship universityâ€™s shift toward including black players. Wood interjects the forgotten narrative of LeMoyne-Owenâ€™s (the cityâ€™s HBCU) 1975 NCAA Division III National Championship team as a critical piece to understanding this era. Finch was drafted by the Lakers following the 1973 NCAA championship but instead signed with the American Basketball Associationâ€™s Memphis Tams. After two years of playing professionally, Finch returned to the sidelines as a coach and would eventually become the head coach of the Memphis State Tigers. Wood deftly weaves together basketball and Memphisâ€™s fraught race relations during the postâ€“civil rights era. While many Memphians viewed the 1973 Tigersâ€™ championship run as representative of racial progress, Memphis as a whole continued to be deeply divided on other issues of race and civil rights. And while Finch was championed as a symbol of the healing power of basketball that helped counteract the cityâ€™s turbulence, many black players and coaches would discover that even its sports mirrored Memphisâ€™s racial divide. Today, as another native son of Memphis, Penny Hardaway, has taken the reigns of the University of Memphisâ€™s basketball program, Wood reflects on the question of progress in the city that saw Kingâ€™s assassination little more than forty years ago. In this important examination of sports and civil rights history, Wood summons social memory from an all-too-recent past to present the untoldâ€”and unfinishedâ€”story of basketball in the Bluff City.

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