24 Seconds to Shoot: The Birth and Improbable Rise of the National Basketball Association;

24 Seconds to Shoot is the chronicle of how pro basketball carved its niche within big-time American sports in the 1950s and '60s. From the merger of the Basketball Association of America and the National League into the NBA to the adoption of the 24-second clock to the age of superstardom, Leonard Koppett, who witnessed it all firsthand, offers a unique view of pro basketball's roots.