Basketball category: 1106 books
Alley-Oop to Aliyah
African American Hoopsters in the Holy Land
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Every season, dozens of African American basketball players pack up their sneakers to play and live in Israel. They eat Israeli food, navigate Israeli hustle and bustle, experience cultural and religious customs in the world’s only Jewish country, and voluntarily expose themselves to the omnipresent...
Clyde the Glide
My Life in Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Through his fifteen-year career as an NBA player, Clyde Drexler played with elegance and flair, leadership and poise, integrity and an ability to come through in the clutch. He led the Portland Trail Blazers to the NBA Finals twice and helped the Houston Rockets win the NBA championship in 1995. A...
by John Feinstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
A Season on the Brink chronicles the basketball season that John Feinstein spent following the Indiana Hoosiers and their fiery coach, Bob Knight.
Knight granted Feinstein an unprecedented inside look at college basketball -- with complete access to every moment of the season. Feinstein saw...
LeBron James vs. the NBA
The Case for the NBA's Greatest Player
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Showcasing one of professional basketball's best players, this book spotlights the life and career of hardcourt superstar LeBron James. More than just a biography, it relates James' story while also establishing his prominent place in NBA history. By examining his skills and statistics in a variety...
Relentless
From Redshirt to the Rock of the Jayhawks
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Every team has at least one. That one player who’s called on to make something happen. Throughout his career on the University of Kansas basketball team, Travis Releford was that guy. So much so, in fact, that on Senior Night 2013, head coach Bill Self told the Allen Fieldhouse crowd that Releford...
Team Work
Rediscovering the Essence of Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Basketball was originally designed to be a team game, but today’s players are growing up in a culture that focuses on the individual. In Teamwork, Mike Huff calls coaches and athletes to return to basketball’s essence, by focusing on The 7 Essentials of Teamwork: communication, leadership, humility,...
Game of My Life Kentucky Wildcats
Memorable Stories of Wildcats Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
How does it feel to play your last college game and land on the cover of Sports Illustrated? What was it like to be a part of the team that won the University of Kentucky’s first national championship ever? Readers will find the answer to these questions and so much more in Ryan Clark’s newly...
Crashing the Borders
How Basketball Won the World and Lost Its Soul at Home
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Unflinching, timely, and authoritative, Crashing the Borders is the beginning of a much-needed conversation about sport and American culture. For those who care about both, this book will be the must-read work of the season.
The game of basketball has gone global and is now the world’s fastest-growing...
The Perfect Game
How Villanova’s Shocking 1985 Upset of Mighty Georgetown Changed the Landscape of College Hoops Forever
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Critically acclaimed veteran sportswriter Frank Fitzpatrick takes readers courtside for one of the greatest upsets in college basketball history, the 1985 Villanova/Georgetown national championship showdown
A veteran Philadelphia Inquirer sportswriter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Frank Fitzpatrick...
Woody Durham
A Tar Heel Voice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
From 1971 to his retirement in 2011, Woody Durham was the “Voice of the Tar Heels,” the radio play-by-play man for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In this autobiography, Woody takes the reader on a nostalgic stroll down memory lane—from his descriptions of a sleepy Franklin...
Qaddafi's Point Guard
The Incredible Story of a Professional Basketball Player Trapped in Libya's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A Nigerian native who emigrated to the United States at age 11, Alex Owumi's exploits on the basketball court led him to a successful career as a small college player. Undrafted by the NBA, Owumi pursued his pro basketball dream overseas, eventually signing with Al-Nasr of Libya, a state-run athletic...
by Mick Donovan
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
Designed specifically for young people, this manual contains a wide
range of progressive practice drills to help them develop their
basketball skills. Fun, educational and challenging, all the drills are
illustrated with photographs or line drawings and cover the essential
skills, including:
warming...
by Wm. J. Coste
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
Basketball Plays, Tricks and Gimmicks would be useful to coaches at all levels. Coach Coste covers the intricacies of both the instructional practice phase and the live game phase. His team free throw practice regimen is complete. After perusing his charity stripe suggestions the reader will want...
by Bill Gutman, Tom Finnegan Ph.D
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Here's the guide for current and prospective coaches that covers every aspect of effectively coaching youth basketball: teaching good sportsmanship, running an effective practice, coaching to a player's age and skill level, teaching offensive and defensive skills and drills, rules of the game, executing winning plays and strategies, dealing with parents.