Basketball

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788494894848Author Jose Manuel HurtadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Roca EditorialPublisher Roca EditorialWeight(grams) 612g

The Ivy League is a place where basketball is neither a pastime nor a profession. Instead, it is a true passion among players, coaches, and committed sports enthusiasts who share in its every success and setback. Outside the Limelight is the first book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978804050Author Alan KleinFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

Roll out the Carpet is the story of West Virginia University basketball. This comprehensive history chronicles over one hundred seasons of the game, from the early years of the Tri-State and Eastern Conferences, to the golden era of Hot Rod Hundley,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641288996Author Jenny Fretland VanvoorstFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint PogoPublisher PogoWeight(grams) 272g

Following the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona and the success and celebrity of the Dream Team, the NBA became a global sensation. Around the same time, and despite ardent warnings from his parents, Arthur Griffiths purchased an NBA team that would become the...

If baseball is the sport of nostalgic prose, basketball's movement, myths, and culture are truly at home in verse. In this extraordinary collection of essays, poets meditate on what basketball means to them: how it has changed their perspective on the...

In urban and rural high schools throughout Illinois, basketball is a Friday night ritual. Local games are often the biggest thing happening all week, and the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and state tournaments attract fanatical fans by the thousands.   Far...

When Victoria Cape moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in the early 1970s, she had no idea that her desire to play basketball would change the game for women and the sport in Tennessee. Encouraged to sign up for basketball by her athletic father, Victoria was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593237953Author Dana O'NeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781886110625Author Brent FlandersFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Taylor Trade PublishingPublisher Taylor Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781886110458Author Ken ShoulerFormat PaperbackPage Count 247Imprint Taylor Trade PublishingPublisher Taylor Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 426g

Tales from the Cincinnati Bearcats Locker Room covers 10 coaching eras, from former National Football League standout John “Socko” Wiethe (1946-52) to Mick Cronin, the Cincinnati native who returned to his alma mater in 2006 and resurrected the program...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581824735Author Wilton SharpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 253Imprint Cumberland House Publishing,USPublisher Sourcebooks, IncWeight(grams) 254g

Here's a handy, inexpensive guide to the world's greatest basketball team filled with things you didn't know about them. For example, what's it like to ride on the team bus? Why didn't GM Jerry Krause and coach Phil Jackson get along? Roland Lazenby has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767902298Author Pat SummittFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621904632Author Thomas AielloFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint University of Tennessee PressPublisher University of Tennessee PressWeight(grams) 445g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978804043Author Alan KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

Today's National Basketball Association commands millions of spectators worldwide, and its many franchises are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But the league wasn't always so successful or glamorous: in the 1940s and 1950s, the NBA and its...

In the twenty-first century, the idea of race in sports is rapidly changing. The National Basketball Association, for instance, was recently home to a new kind of racial conflict. After a recent playoff loss, Houston head coach, Jeff Van Gundy alleged...

Former ESPN basketball commentator Digger Phelps is regarded as one of the most charismatic and opinionated analysts in the profession. And he was the same personality during his twenty years as the head coach at the University of Notre Dame. In this...

One of the most exciting teams in the NBA, the Dallas Mavericks have taken the sports world by storm. Now readers and fans will finally get the chance to hear the stories and witness the action that defines the powerhouse team that captured the 2011 NBA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600783920Author Ira BerkowFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 424g

Basketball, one of the world's greatest sports, attracts millions of all ages. Now Dick Motta , former NBA coach, and Neil D. Isaacs , well-known basketball writer combine their talents to show you the keys to developing your game. In this book you'll...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767903295Author Pat SummittFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 297gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629379555Author The Editors of Sports IllustratedFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Triumph BooksPublisher Triumph BooksWeight(grams) 4g

Since its formation in 2010, 3x3 basketball's popularity has rocketed. In only seven years, 3x3 basketball has gone from being played casually as a pick-up game to becoming an official Olympic sport, with the 2021 Summer Games showcasing its debut. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618446711Author Darcy FreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455571246Author Kareem Abdul-JabbarFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

A capturing of basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain's personality and thoughts-known by relatively few people other than family and close friends-is made available to all in this intimate biography. The author, a native of Philadelphia and an alumnus of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932549492Author Robert G PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Price World EnterprisesPublisher Price World EnterprisesWeight(grams) 318g

History has been made in unforgettable fashion as the Milwaukee Bucks triumphed over the Phoenix Suns in the 2021 NBA Finals, bringing the first title to the Cream City in 50 years.Coming off playoff disappointments in 2019 and 2020 and with the addition...

Let's say you're the coach of the NBA team with the most championship banners hanging from its rafters, with every current and former player available on your bench. Game 7 of the Finals is approaching and it's time to put your team on the floor. Who's...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541736221Author Ethan Sherwood StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A unique, unfiltered memoir from the NBA champion and fifteen-time all-star ahead of his induction into the Hall of Fame.Kevin Garnett was one of the most dominant players the game of basketball has ever seen. He was also one of its...

Now in paperback!Heaven Is a Playground was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball. Rick Telander, a photojournalist and former high school basketball player, spent part of the summer of 1973 and all of the summer of 1974...

Initiating new fans into the world of Knicks lore or reminding die-hard supporters why this New York NBA team is always their number one, this entertaining resource distills 66 years of team history into the top 100 things to know and do-encouraging...

John Wooden was arguably the greatest college basketball coach of all time, a teacher as well as mentor whose handiwork produced a dynasty bridging the 1960s and 1970s. Quotable Wooden is a compilation of more than two hundred quotes by and about Wooden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493076932Author Robert W. CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 630gDimensions(mm) 229mm...