Basketball

Basketball 2.0 takes a riveting and inspirational look inside the rise of 3x3 basketball, which made its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020, just a decade after launching as the official truncated version of arguably the world's second most popular sport. For...

Most Boston Celtics fans have taken in at least a game or two at the Garden and have watched highlights of Larry Bird in his prime. But only real fans know about Bill Russell's pregame ritual or the history of the team's parquet floors. 100 Things...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538717103Author John GasawayFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint TwelvePublisher Twelve

Although many fans think Butler University basketball took off with its back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances in 2010 and 2011, the Butler Bulldogs have a long history of tenaciously outplaying larger and better-known teams. In Butler Basketball...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781669040231Author Elliott SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 152mm *...

South Asian American men are not usually depicted as ideal American men. They struggle against popular representations as either threatening terrorists or geeky, effeminate computer geniuses. To combat such stereotypes, some use sports as a means of...

In 1943, at the North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. His team was the highest-scoring team in America, and yet they faced danger whenever they traveled backcountry roads.Across town, the...

Most 76ers fans have attended a game at the Wells Fargo Center, seen highlights of a young Charles Barkley, and remember team's trip to the 2001 NBA Finals. But only real fans can name the franchise's 12 Hall of Famers, remember the future head coach who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399179099Author Jack MccallumFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

In the summer of 1962, the peripatetic and irrepressible Pete Gill was hired on a whim to coach basketball at tiny Ireland High School. There he would accomplish, against enormous odds, one of the great small-town feats in Indiana basketball history...

Howard Nathan. A. J. Guyton. Sergio McClain. Marcus Griffin. Frank Williams. Shaun Livingston. This dazzling constellation of talent helped make Peoria a prep basketball hotbed from the 1980s to the 2000s. Jeff Karzen takes readers inside the lives of...

NBA List Jam! is an entertaining and informative collection of 125+ ranked lists that discuss and debate the people, games, events, and ephemera that have made the NBA the spectator sport of choice for millions in North America and beyond. The wide...

In the 1990's, Dallas was a basketball wasteland. Along came Dirk Nowitzki, a towering Wurzburg, Germany native with a cool efficiency and the ability to make shots from seemingly impossible angles. In the years thereafter, Nowitzki would spend his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538709146Author Seimone AugustusFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint TwelvePublisher TwelveWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 193mm * 23mm

Howard Beck. Marc Stein. Jonathan Abrams. Chris Broussard. Ira Berkow. George Vecsey. Mike Wise. Selena Roberts. Lee Jenkins. All have graced the pages of The New York Times, entertaining readers with their probing coverage of the N.B.A.: a stage on...

This is the hardest working team in the NBA - the Utah Jazz. Led by iron men Karl Malone, John Stockton and coach Jerry Sloan. Go behind the scenes to reveal the unparalleled competitiveness of a collection of over-achieving players and their demanding...

Chris Ballard sits down with the NBA's most passionate, cerebral players to discover their tricks of the trade and to learn what drives them. He reveals the roots of Kobe Bryant's limitless competitiveness; shadows LeBron James to figure out how he...

A nostalgic romp through modern NBA history as documented by basketball's most iconic and innovative magazine covers. Every magazine cover is the result of a series of intentional decisions. Cover Story shares the behind-the-scenes stories of these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802065824Author Hanif AbdurraqibFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 500g

There is a great deal more than Madness lurking within the Division 1 NCAA Basketball Tournament. There are equally strong traditions, symmetries, and even normalities that also define this annual rite of passage. And one of the most powerful of those is...

A revealing, intimate biography of basketball savant and enigmatic NBA superstar Nikola Jokic, filled with news-breaking interviews and deep reporting from Mike Singer, the Nuggets’ former beat writer for the Denver Post.Why So Serious? takes readers on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645036975Author Theresa RunstedtlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type Books

40 years of stunning basketball photography—both on the court and off—from one of the sports’ greatest document chroniclers As one of the NBA’s premier photographers, Nathaniel S. Butler has shot it all. From iconic moments like Ray Allen’s corner three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063396838Author Mike SingerImprint HarperAudioPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

A historic look at the fabled 1983–84 Boston Celtics and an unforgettable season.Ronald Reagan declares the Soviet Union an Evil Empire. The Apple Macintosh personal computer makes its debut. Michael Jackson’s Thriller album dominates the pop charts. And...

A pioneer in the field of basketball analytics, Dean Oliver introduced a framework to understand basketball through the use of statistics in his book Basketball on Paper. In his follow-up, Basketball beyond Paper, Oliver lays out both the technical and...

The captivating biography of Abe Saperstein, creator of the Harlem GlobetrottersThe original Harlem Globetrotters weren’t from Harlem, and they didn’t start out as globetrotters. The talented all-Black team, started by Jewish immigrant Abe Saperstein,...

On August 3, 1949, the National Basketball Association was born, comprising 17 organizations that ranged geographically from Boston to Denver and culturally from Manhattan to Sheboygan. The league being the result of a merger, there were two different...

A comprehensive illustrated book about one of the most popular sports in the world - basketball. Basketball - The Ultimate Book presents the history and lifestyle of the sport, shows the best players and teams, the most beautiful dunks, and the most...

Through a study of basketball in Japan, this book aims to help readers better understand the historical formation and contemporary reformation of cultural identity in Japan.This reformation includes the process of reconciling the perceived differences...

Experience the illustrious and passionate history of The Boston Celtics, one of NBA's most popular franchises, as it happened through the articles, features, and lens of their hometown and national news outlet, The Boston Globe.The NBA has existed nearly...

Michael Ray Richardson was a star in the making. After a stellar collegiate career at the University of Montana, where he was voted first team All-Big Sky Conference as a sophomore, junior, and senior, the future seemed bright. Taken fourth overall in...

On an early morning in 1983, after the worst loss of his career (109-66 against Virginia) amid the cries of powerful athletics boosters calling for him to be fired, Duke men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski went to breakfast at 2:00 a.m. to vent with...