New book co-authored by Magic Johnson and Larry Bird

There are only a few rare cases when two people are able to appropriately title a book "When the Game Was Ours" (Amazon link here just as an fyi as we don't have a pay agreement with them). Larry Bird and Magic Johnson are without question two of those players. In the mid-1980's, the NBA was theirs. And to get the two of them together for a book might make for one of the most interesting sports books in quite some time-- perhaps ever, especially for basketball. Let's not forget that the Michigan State vs Indiana State college basketball national championship in 1979 remains the highest watched nielson rated NCAA title game. Ever. By 1984, just 5 years later, they reinvented the NBA Finals for TV. Must watch games, recounted here. And beyond all that, the book has drama as Magic Johnson details the true break in his friendship toward Isiah Thomas, which went so far that Magic lobbied to keep Isiah off the 1992 Olympics basketball "Dream Team". Wow. And after you have read the book, next March, right around the time of 2010 March Madness, HBO will begin airing a documentary about Larry Bird and Magic Johnson (press release).