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"Beautifully illustrated and sharply written, SprawlBall is both a celebration and a critique of the three-point shot. If you want to understand how the modern NBA came to be, you'll need to read this book." -Nate Silver, editor, fivethirtyeight.com From the leading expert in the exploding field of basketball analytics, a stunning infographic decoding of the modern NBA: who shoots where, how well, and why The field of basketball analytics has leaped...
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2009.
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English
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The New York Times–bestseller from the Hall of Fame basketball legends. "Finally a book that tells the story of Magic and Larry from their vantage point." —Denzel Washington
In Celtic green was Larry Bird, the hick from French Lick, with laser-beam focus, relentless determination, and a deadly jump shot, a player who demanded excellence from everyone and whose caustic wit left opponents quaking in their high-tops. Magic Johnson...
In Celtic green was Larry Bird, the hick from French Lick, with laser-beam focus, relentless determination, and a deadly jump shot, a player who demanded excellence from everyone and whose caustic wit left opponents quaking in their high-tops. Magic Johnson...
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Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2025]
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English
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"Basketball's shooting guards do a lot more than shoot. They grab rebounds, play tough defense, and thrill fans with high-flying dunks. Meet the best shooting guards, explore their careers, and then choose your top 10"--
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University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"The G League is the official minor league of the National Basketball Association. Life in the G is about the arduous quest to achieve an improbable goal: making it to the NBA. Zeroing in on the Birmingham Squadron and four of its players-Jared Harper, Joe Young, Zylan Cheatham, and Malcolm Hill-Alex Squadron details the pursuit of a dream in what turned out to be the most remarkable season in the history of minor league sports. Life in the G League...
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Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"A 75-year history of the National Basketball Association."--
Celebrate the NBA with stories that capture the association's larger-than-life players and jaw-dropping events. From 1946 to 2020, there are stories and archival images that cover the best dunks, shots, dribble drives, and cross-overs. And the retrospective doesn't shy away from controversy, covering the league's struggles with racial bigotry, Magic Johnson's HIV diagnosis, and the cocaine-fueled...
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Triumph Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"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 which spectacular athletes perform against a backdrop of continuous social change. Now, their work and more is collected in a new volume, edited and annotated by Hall of Fame honoree Harvey Araton, tracing...
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Triumph Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"A hands-on, illuminating deconstruction of NBA basketball, tracing the tactical evolution of the modern game. As the NBA celebrates and surpasses 75 years of existence, today's game looks nothing like it did in generations past when Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar took turns ruling the league. But it's also entirely different from a decade -- even half decade -- ago. Today's stars enter the league with more versatility and...
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Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"An oral history of basketball"--
"Inspired by a landmark ESPN film series, this is an extraordinary oral history of basketball--its eye-opening untold history, its profound deeper meaning, its transformative influence on the world--as told through an unprecedented series of candid conversations with the game's greatest icons. This is the greatest love story never told. It has passion and heartbreak, triumph and betrayal. It is deeply intimate yet...
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Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Veteran NBA reporter and editor Sean Deveney explores the unique characters and backstories of twelve crucial games in the history of the league, while putting them into the context of their influence on the direction of the game"--
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