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Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell Newly updated with fresh takes on LeBron, Kobe, the Celtics & more* *Including even more footnotes! Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.com’s Sports Guy, has written the definitive book on the past, ...
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The Show: The Inside Story of the Spectacular Los Angeles Lakers in the Words of Those Who Lived it
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The Los Angeles Lakers are and always have been one of the NBA's most interesting, exciting, and even glamorous teams. Now Roland Lazenby, author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller Mindgame: Phil Jackson's Long Strange Journey and the critically acclaimed Mad Game: The NBA Education of Kobe Bryant,...
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Long before the whole world knew Sarah Palin as "Momma Grizzly," the handful of girls on her high school basketball team called their starting point guard Sarah "Barracuda" for the tenacious defense she played. Hers was the kind of determination that fit in well on a scrappy team from a small town w...
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due to release 28 Feb 2012
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"Tales From the Hoosier Locker Room" covers over a century of Indiana University basketball. Current and former Hoosiers talk of the excitement, the disappointment, the laughter, and the celebration that has turned IU basketball into a statewide religion. The history of the Indiana program is reveal...
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due to release 8 Mar 2012
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Written by the leading authority on sports card values, this fully-updated manual is the most trusted source for organizing and pricing basketball card collections. It includes: -Over 50,0000 price listings for cards from 1948 to the present, with each card clearly identified by year, manufacturer, ...
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The Big O: My Life, My Times, My Game
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Perhaps the greatest all-around player in basketball history, Oscar Robertson revolutionized basketball as a member of the Cincinnati Royals and won a championship with the Milwaukee Bucks. When he was twenty-three, in 1962, he accomplished one of basketball's most impressive feats: averaging the tr...
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"Mindgames" follows the journey of Phil Jackson to the top of basketball's coaching hierarchy, a rise that took him from obscurity in the Continental Basketball Association to nine championship rings in the NBA. Along the way he turned multimillionaire players on to meditation, transformed the Micha...
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"Who is LeBron James?" In the wake of his sudden departure from Cleveland's hopeful Cavaliers to join Pat Riley's Miami Heat, this is the question that is burning in the hearts of basketball fans around the country. Now, in the tradition of Frederick Exley's cult-classic sports book "A Fan's Notes,"...
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due to release 24 Apr 2012
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Slam Dunk, Vol. 22
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Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences rated teen. Winning isn't everything in the game of basketball, but who wants to come in second? It takes dedication and discipline to be the best, and the Shohoku High hoops team wants to be just that. They have one last year to make their captain's drea...
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due to release 5 Jun 2012
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Slam Dunk, Vol. 23
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Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences rated teen. Winning isn't everything in the game of basketball, but who wants to come in second? It takes dedication and discipline to be the best, and the Shohoku High hoops team wants to be just that. They have one last year to make their captain's drea...
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due to release 7 Aug 2012
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Coaching Youth Basketball 5e
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It is a complete guide to coaching basketball players ages 6-14. Incorporates a player-centered approach, emphasizing athlete development. Provides guidelines and forms for running organized, efficient, and productive practices for specific age groups. Includes explanations, diagrams, and photos of ...
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due to release 29 Jun 2012
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In Tales from the Duke Blue Devils Locker Room, readers will laugh, dream, and sweat alongside the players of one of the most successful and storied collegebasketball teams to ever take to the hardwood. In this treasure trove ofDuke history, Jim Sumner brings to life the legendary games and unique p...
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due to release 1 May 2012
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Ken Rappoport s Tales from the North Carolina Tar Heels Locker Room is acompilation of the best notes, quotes, and anecdotes from North Carolina lore.Meet a coach nicknamed Bloody Neck, a player called The Blind Bomber, and a team known as the White Phantoms. And, of course, there is the extraordina...
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due to release 1 May 2012
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With unforgettable players and the winningest tradition in the NBA, the Celticscan lay claim to some of the most unique stories in the league. But whathappens when the lights go dim, the crowds depart, and the players leave thecourt? In Boston Celtics Where Have You Gone? fans can catch up with thei...
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due to release 1 May 2012
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One of the most storied college basketball programs in America, the KansasJayhawks have produced some of the greatest legends to ever roam the hardwood.In this newly revised edition of Tales from the Kansas Jayhawks LockerRoom, fans can sift through a treasure trove of first-hand memories from thepl...
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due to release 1 May 2012
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Dick Vitale's Living a Dream: Reflections on 30 Years Sitting in the Best Seat in the House
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Since joining ESPN in 1979, Dick Vitale has become the senior spokesman forcollege hoops. In this newly revised edition of Living A Dream, Vitale revealsdetails about his start at ESPN and shares his feelings about the most importantpeople in the college basketball world. A must-have for any basketb...
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due to release 1 Jul 2012
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More than 5,800 card sets are listed in this popular book. It's the most comprehensive basketball card source ever! This new edition includes complete coverage of hoops cards and collectibles from 1910 to present.
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due to release 1 Nov 2012
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They were the Beatles of basketball, the "Mercury" Seven in sneakers. In "Dream Team, "acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men's Basketball Team that captivated the world, kindled the hoop dreams of countless...
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due to release 10 Jul 2012
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"Annie was one of the best players ever. I didn't say male or female; I said ever."--Bill Russell, former Boston Celtics playerAnn Meyers Drysdale is one of the greatest stars in the history of basketball. But her rise wasn't without controversy. Her 1979 NBA bid to play with the Indiana Pacers brou...
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Wild Grapes
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The uplifting story of Charlie Newsome, a member of the Utah Special Olympics Hall of Fame. You can't beat him when it comes to bumper pool, bowling, or shooting a game of H-O-R-S-E. His skill is indisputable. His story is an entertaining peek into an enigmatic mind.
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Cowboy Up As the dark clouds of World War II were looming on the horizon, an American original named Kenny Sailors was capturing the attention of the country and leading the University of Wyoming basketball program on an astonishing run to the NCAA championship. Sailors, pioneer of the modern jump s...
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Growing up in Kinston, Alabama, Rick Wood had two goals: to play high school basketball for his role model, Creigh Purnell, and to become a high school coach and teacher himself. Though he was never able to make Coach Purnell's varsity, he enjoyed a stellar coaching career. Rick Wood retired with 66...
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With its technical limitations, modern basketball has developed radically to a physical game. A revolution of basketball fundamental skills is needed, and now it is feasible with a break-through technique-Three-Finger Zen, Universal Ball-Handling Mechanism. In 2010, after five-year dedicated researc...
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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 craft of poetry; how it informs their sense of l...
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due to release 15 Feb 2012
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West by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life
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He is one of basketball's towering figures: "Mr. Clutch," who mesmerized his opponents and fans. The coach who began the Lakers' resurgence in the 1970s. The general manager who helped bring "Showtime" to Los Angeles, creating a championship-winning force that continues to this day. Now, for the fir...
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Don't Put Me In, Coach: My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench
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An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits!). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007 national championship game. Yo...
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due to release 6 Mar 2012
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Sport Joys and Gifts of Play
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Paul T. Owens takes a moving and fun look at sports, fans, athletes and athletic organizations in this new compilation of his writings. This book is written for people who find fun at play, those who must have games and teams to follow, and those who believe that athletic motion is what keeps the ea...
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On a March afternoon in Cleveland, St. Bonaventure battled powerful Kentucky for 40 minutes and two overtimes in the first round of the 2000 NCAA Tournament. Though the Bonnies would lose that day, the moments that accompanied that game provided St. Bonaventure's proud alumni a vast sense of pride. ...
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YOUR BRACKET HAS BEEN BUSTED In 2010, Butler University in Indianapolis became the smallest school in forty years to reach the NCAA championship game. Then, in 2011, the Bulldogs did it again. The way in which Butler accomplished this incredible feat makes for one of the most uplifting narratives in...
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Recounts the remarkable story of University of Michigan basketball players Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson, and chronicles their success in the NCAA tournaments of 1992 and 1993.
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The experiment was dreamed up by two fathers, one white, one black. What would happen, they wondered, if they mixed white players from an elite Seattle private school and black kids from the inner city on a basketball team? The team's season unfolded like a perfectly scripted sports movie: The ragta...
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Top of the World
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"I'm on top of the world!" shouted Kevin Garnett after the Boston Celtics demolished the heavily favored Los Angeles Lakers for a league-leading seventeenth NBA championship. Peter May chronicles the amazing run of the team, who went from having the second-worst record in 2007 to leading the pack in...
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Renowned college basketball coach Tom Penders revisits his successful, if tumultuous, career in a new autobiography Dead Coach Walking: Tom Penders Surviving and Thriving in College Hoops. One of the winningest head coaches in NCAA Division I basketball history, Penders reflects on four decades stee...
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Millions watch basketball games at gyms, arenas, or on TV. Others listen to games on the radio. Youths play the game in gyms and schoolyards, getting great exercise, working on their skills, and attending practices to learn more about a fantastic and fun team sport.Whether you recently signed up for...
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Night Hoops
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For use in schools and libraries only. While trying to prove that he is good enough to be on his high school's varsity basketball team, Nick also must deal with his parents' divorce and the erratic behavior of a troubled classmate who lives across the street.
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The 6ixth Man
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The 6ixth Man is the product of Norman's upbringing in what is now called South Los Angeles. It is a narrative that chronicles specific junctures in the life of a young man who was embarrassed by his intelligence and desperate for an athletic identity that was never quite realized. From inner-city b...
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Five years after dropping an emotional NBA Finals to the Heat, the Dallas Mavericks redeemed themselves in emphatic fashion in 2011, besting LeBron James and Miami in six games to claim the franchise's first championship. The Mavs were led by Dirk Nowitzki, one of the league's most underappreciated ...
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