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The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy Book

A highly opinionated and massively entertaining missive on every aspect of the NBA, past, present, and future, from the Sports Guy himself, The Book of Basketball covers every imaginable topic and addresses every conceivable issue, from the question of who truly won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to which MVP Award winner was the least deserving of all time to which team was the best of all time, and takes readers in directions other sportswriters could never dream up. This is a definitive and one-of-a-kind book that will sell for years.Read More

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  • BookDepository

    The Book of Basketball : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780345520104 : 0345520106 : 07 Dec 2010 : ESPN's The Sports Guy returns with the best book ever written about the NBA (or so he promises)--a wildly opinionated and entertaining tour of the history, present, and future of pro basketball.

  • Amazon Review

    Amazon Best of the Month, October 2009: The Book of Basketball is a 700-page work of hoops genius that would make Dr. James Naismith beam proudly – and probably blush. Author Bill Simmons, best known as ESPN.com's "The Sports Guy," explores the NBA with hilarious insight, brilliant analysis, and a bevy of irreverent footnotes. Simmons is a fan first – a fact best explained in an entertaining foreword by Malcolm Gladwell – and writes from the stands, not the press room. His knowledge and passion for the game provide him with few peers, yet his voice represents those who stick by their teams through thick and thin. As a result, The Book of Basketball is not just a tribute to hardwood heroes, but also a celebration of yelling at TV sets, revering lucky jerseys, and holding our breath until the final buzzer sounds. Throw in pages of nearly-insane statistical breakdowns (including a projected boxscore from the movie Teen Wolf), and it's easy to see why fans of all levels should clear shelf space for this instant classic. --Dave Callanan

  • Product Description

    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, present, and future of the NBA. From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons’s one-of-a-kind five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball.

    Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game’s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.

  • 0345520106
  • 9780345520104
  • Bill Simmons, Malcolm Gladwell
  • 7 December 2010
  • ESPN
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 752
  • Updated
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