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Basketball Reawakening
Book - Basketball Reawakening
Dimension cm. W23 x H30 - 248 colour pages - Hardcover - Language: dual-language ENG/ITA
That canvas that brings to life the emotional colors of basketball
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Names: Claudio Ciceri [Author] Gabriele Sironi, Fabio La Rosa, Riccardo Sironi, Walter Ferraioli [Collaborative-Authors. Their collaboration was achieved by writing their own chapters and sharing their own thoughts]

Translated by: Kevin Patterson, Claudio Ciceri, James Davis

Cover Design by: Kevin Patterson - Adrien Roger

Art Direction by: Stefan Jensen

Layout & Design by: James Davis - Nicholas Akesson

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‘The Game of Basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I’ve always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It’s been the site of intense pain and the most intense feeling of joy and satisfaction. It’s a relationship that has evolved over time, giving me the greatest respect and love for the Game’.

- Michael Jordan, six time NBA champion


THE RIGHT OF EMPTINESS

Today, many sports structures almost entirely absorb the time of our youth. They do not accompany them: they occupy them. Daily practices, games, tournaments, and constant demands for presence transform sport into unpaid labor, sustained by the promise of a dream that, in most cases, will never take shape. The goal is no longer the evolution of the human being, but the performance of the structure. ‘Being’ is reduced to ‘becoming’: becoming an athlete, becoming a winner, becoming functional. The dogma the more you train, the better you get is thus transformed into psychological violence: a false meritocracy that destroys creativity and hollows out the game of its original meaning. The boy no longer plays for himself. He plays to please the coach, the club, the system. Every gesture is evaluated, corrected, measured. Every mistake is monitored. Free time disappears. And with it disappears the right to emptiness, to the unforeseen, to fertile boredom. ... continue

Riccardo Sironi

Riccardo Sironi

Riccardo Sironi

The title of this book, 'Basketball Reawakening'  indicates a seemingly obvious fact.


Riccardo Sironi

But considering it obvious what links the rise of emotions and feelings to basketball is the result of living out of habit - distracted, indifferent,  and bored - missing the extraordinary existential dimension that surrounds  and pervades us when we are on the court.

Riccardo Sironi

Playing the Game leads to an intimate connection through 'sympathy'. No words are needed to give rise to feelings, moods, emotional experiences, particular and special sensations, unique sensations.