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    'Hard Labor' looks back on NBA's earlier days, plus more sports books reviewed

    by Ed Sherman, Chicago Tribune Dec 27, 2017 3 minutes

    "Hard Labor: The Battle That Birthed the Billion-Dollar NBA" by Sam Smith, Triumph, 368 pages, $24.95

    LeBron James is on the cover of "Hard Labor" with $100 bills floating around him, but this book really has nothing to do with the Cleveland superstar. Instead, former Tribune reporter Sam Smith examines the players who opened the door to the mega-salaries earned by James and others in today's NBA. Smith details how Oscar Robertson and

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