Lukasz Muniowski is an assistant professor at Szczecin University in Poland. He is the author of four books on the history of the NBA, including most recently The Sixth Man: A History of the NBA’s Best Off the Bench.

"Lukasz Muniowski documents how an unsuccessful NBA team in Vancouver found success in the unlikely small market of Memphis. The history of the NBA’s expansion Grizzlies and the way the franchise made its way from western Canada to the mid-southern United States is one of importance for all true NBA fans as well as for historians of the game. This is way more than X’s and O’s; it’s a look at the economic, political, and social forces that make the NBA work and, by extension, the forces that make free enterprise itself work."—Rick Telander, senior sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and a member of the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame

Lukasz Muniowski is an assistant professor at Szczecin University in Poland. He is the author of four books on the history of the NBA, including most recently The Sixth Man: A History of the NBA’s Best Off the Bench.

"Lukasz Muniowski documents how an unsuccessful NBA team in Vancouver found success in the unlikely small market of Memphis. The history of the NBA’s expansion Grizzlies and the way the franchise made its way from western Canada to the mid-southern United States is one of importance for all true NBA fans as well as for historians of the game. This is way more than X’s and O’s; it’s a look at the economic, political, and social forces that make the NBA work and, by extension, the forces that make free enterprise itself work."—Rick Telander, senior sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and a member of the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame

Lukasz Muniowski is an assistant professor at Szczecin University in Poland. He is the author of four books on the history of the NBA, including most recently The Sixth Man: A History of the NBA’s Best Off the Bench.

"Lukasz Muniowski documents how an unsuccessful NBA team in Vancouver found success in the unlikely small market of Memphis. The history of the NBA’s expansion Grizzlies and the way the franchise made its way from western Canada to the mid-southern United States is one of importance for all true NBA fans as well as for historians of the game. This is way more than X’s and O’s; it’s a look at the economic, political, and social forces that make the NBA work and, by extension, the forces that make free enterprise itself work."—Rick Telander, senior sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and a member of the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame