Basketball category: 1106 books
Nebrasketball
Coach Tim Miles and a Big Ten Team on the Rise
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
When fall rolls into winter, most sports fans in Nebraska long for spring football. But Coach Tim Miles has given hibernating fans a reason to cheer through winter for the first time in twenty years. Since taking over the men’s basketball program in 2012, Miles has gone from being relatively unknown...
Hoop
A Basketball Life in Ninety-Five Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Brian Doyle himself explains it best: “A few years ago I was moaning to my wry gentle dad that basketball, which seems to me inarguably the most graceful and generous and swift and fluid and ferociously-competitive-without-being-sociopathic of sports, has not produced rafts of good books, like baseball...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
The Science of Basketball is the only book to examine the scientific principles underpinning preparation and performance in basketball, applied to both individual and team contexts.
Drawing on the very latest scientific evidence, and including contributions from leading international coaches...
by Clyde Lovellette
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
One of basketballs all-time greats at every level of the game, Clyde Lovellette grew up in difficult circumstances in Terre Haute, Indiana. In high school he was twice named All-State. After graduating high school he headed to Kansas to play for coaching legend Phog Allen where he was three times...
Sum It Up
A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Pat...
How Lucky You Can Be
The Story of Coach Don Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
In September 2008, Northern State University men’s basketball coach Don Meyer stood on the brink of immortality. He was about to surpass the legendary Bobby Knight to become the all-time NCAA wins leader in men’s basketball. Then, on a two-lane road in South Dakota, everything changed in an instant.
In...
Sacred Hoops
Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
With a new introduction, Phil Jackson's modern classic of motivation, teamwork, and Zen insight is updated for a whole new readership
"Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball." --Phil Jackson
Eleven years ago, when Phil...
Bob Knight
The Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2006
Brilliant, intimidating, charming, or profane, Coach Bob Knight is an enduring contradiction who has long fascinated and repelled basketball fans, for whom he has provided as much to dislike as to respect.
Bob Knight: The Unauthorized Biography is the first comprehensive biography of Knight,...
Wilt, 1962
The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young and striking athlete celebrated as the Big Dipper, scored one hundred points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers.
As historic and revolutionary as the...
Lebron James and Kevin Durant
Unauthorized Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Lebron James and Kevin Durant are international superstars. This book follows both men's lives from their humble beginnings to becoming two of the best basketball players in the world.
LeBron James, The Chosen One, is one of the greatest basketball players ever to play the game. He is an eight-time...
Won't Back Down
Teams, Dreams, and Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Whether on a baseball field as the only girl on an all-boys team in Hammond, Louisiana, or on a basketball court where her play-making ability was compared to Louisiana legend Pistol Pete Maravich, Kim Mulkey was a young athlete so gifted she was named to Parade magazine's 1980 All-America High School...
Ramblers
Loyola Chicago 1963 - The Team that Changed the Color of College Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Today basketball is played above the rim” by athletes of all backgrounds and colors. But 50 years ago it was a floor-bound game, and the opportunities it offered for African-Americans were severely limited.
A key turning point was 1963, when the Loyola Ramblers of Chicago took the NCAA...
by Belmont and Belcourt Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Ricky Rubio is a phenom rising. At age 14 he was the youngest player ever to be drafted by the Spanish ACB League, the second-most competitive basketball league in the world. This young prodigy spent his adolescent years becoming known as one of the biggest talents in European basketball and he is...
Showboat
The Life of Kobe Bryant
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The definitive portrait of Kobe Bryant, from the author of Michael Jordan.
"Lazenby's detailed research and fantastic writing paint a complex, engaging picture of one of the NBA's greats." (Kurt Helin, Pro Basketball Talk, NBC Sports)
Eighteen-time All-Star, scorer of 81 points...