Basketball Empire

Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff is a historian, writer and consultant specializing in the history of global sport, communications and diplomacy. She is the Director of FranceandUS, lectures on sports diplomacy at New York University, USA, and as a Research Associate at SOAS University London, UK, co-directed the Basketball in Diplomacy in Africa project. The author of The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France 1958-2010 (2013) she has written on global sport for CNN International, The Washington Post and The New Yorker, amongst other publications. She holds a PhD in History from City University of New York, USA, an MA in Journalism and French Studies from NYU, USA, and a BA in International Affairs from The George Washington University, USA.

Acknowledgements
Glossary
Interview Subjects

Introduction
Prologue

Part I: Foundations
1. “I Didn’t Go to France to Play Basketball” 1954-1960
2. Basketball in Crisis, 1960-68
3. Emulating an Idol, 1968-198
4. Triangulating Foundations, 1968-1984
5. New Waves, 1984-92
6. From the Dream Team to Sydney, 1992-2000

Part II: French in the USA
Global Scouting Report
7. Renaissance Man Boris Diaw
8. Transatlantic Champion Sandrine Gruda
9. “We Did It!” Nicolas Batum and Marine Johannès
10. Representing Paris Diandra Tchatchouang and Evan Fournier
11. From Cholet to the NBA

Part III: Going Global
Going Global in the Twenty-First Century
12. Youth Pipelines
13. “Rubbing Shoulders” with African Basketball
14. Contributions to the NBA and WNBA
15. La Vie en Bleu

Epilogue

Selected Bibliography
Index