In The Wizard of Odds, renowned and best-selling basketball writer Charley Rosen brings us for the first time the full life story of Jack Molinas, one of the greatest basketball players of his era, a man whose gambling addiction and hubris caused his ultimate demise. Drawing on numerous, previously unavailable first-person accounts, including Jack Molinasās own journal and trial transcripts, Rosen presents the true saga of a man who perhaps better than anyone around him understood the weaknesses of the system in which he livedāso much so that he convinced himself that he could manipulate that system to his advantage with total impunity, in a lifeās journey that took him from NBA play to the Mafia and the pornographic film industry, and to an ultimate tragic destiny.
In The Wizard of Odds, renowned and best-selling basketball writer Charley Rosen brings us for the first time the full life story of Jack Molinas, one of the greatest basketball players of his era, a man whose gambling addiction and hubris caused his ultimate demise. Drawing on numerous, previously unavailable first-person accounts, including Jack Molinasās own journal and trial transcripts, Rosen presents the true saga of a man who perhaps better than anyone around him understood the weaknesses of the system in which he livedāso much so that he convinced himself that he could manipulate that system to his advantage with total impunity, in a lifeās journey that took him from NBA play to the Mafia and the pornographic film industry, and to an ultimate tragic destiny.