Basketball category: 1106 books
by Meredith Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
This book tells you about the life and career of Kevin Durant, one of the most influential players to have ever played in the history of basketball. Stepping on to an arena that had produced legends on the likes of Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, etc, Kevin Durant has come a long way to...
Life Is Not an Accident
A Memoir of Reinvention
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
New York Times Bestseller
This big-hearted memoir by the most promising professional basketball player of his generation details his rise to NBA stardom, the terrible accident that ended his career and plunged him into a life-altering depression, and how he ultimately found his way out of the...
by David Halberstam
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life and history in the years since WWII. A Pulitzer Prize-winner for his ground-breaking reporting on the Vietnam War, Halberstam wrote more than 20 books,...
Loose Balls
Easy Money, Hard Fouls, Cheap Laughs, and True Love in the NBA
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
The first candid report from a land of fragile egos, available women, unexpected tenderness, intramural fistfights, colossal partying, bizarre humor, inconceivable riches, and desperate competition, Loose Balls does for roundball what Ball Four did for hardball. From revelations about the meanest,...
The Miracle of St. Anthony
A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball's Most Improbable Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
In a city mired in endless decay, where the youth suffer through all the horrors of urban blight, hope comes in a most unassuming form: a tiny brick schoolhouse run by two Felician nuns where a singular basketball genius takes teenagers from the mean streets of Jersey City and turns them into champions...
Writings on the Wall
Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
A New York Times and Washington Post Bestseller
Bestselling author, basketball legend and cultural commentator Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores the heart of issues that affect Americans today.
Since retiring from professional basketball as the NBA's all-time leading scorer, six-time MVP,...
by MIKE - aka Mike Raffone
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
As the sports world’s ultimate talking head, MIKE shares 25 of his all-time favorite NCAA March Madness basketball comics.
MIKE’s clever comics capture the moments, people and expressions that comprise the glorious spring sickness known as March Madness.
You’ll laugh at the...
Character Driven
Life, Lessons, and Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
The Three Time NBA Champion and starting point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers shares his Christian faith and inspirational values for success and happiness.
Since his inaugural season with the NBA in 1996, Derek Fisher has had a dramatic impact on the great success of the Lakers. Playing...
MIKE's FREE Sports Comic Book on NBA
Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
In this FREE book, MIKE shares 25 of his favorite NBA comics.
MIKE’s clever comics capture iconic players, shots, teams and nicknames that NBA fans have long admired.
Enjoy these comics. Memories of what they stand for will have you admiring, pondering, laughing, wincing and,...
Geno
In Pursuit of Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
Controversial, confrontational, and driven, Coach Geno Auriemma is a force to be reckoned with-and the most accomplished male coach in women's basketball today. In his relentless quest for excellence at the University of Connecticut, he has led the Huskies to five national championships.Yet his soul...
Resilience
Faith, Focus, Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Resilience. It’s not just the title of Alonzo Mourning’s stirring memoir; it’s the stuff he’s made of. Whether petitioning himself into foster care as an eleven-year-old, tirelessly studying his way onto the dean’s list at Georgetown University, making it as an all-star center in the NBA,...
by Luther Wright, Karen Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
FORMER NBA STAR LUTHER WRIGHT SHARES HIS HARROWING AND UPLIFTING JOURNEY OF FINDING GOD—AND HIMSELF—WHEN HE HAD NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE.
Luther Wright had the life hoop dreams are made of. A first-round NBA draft pick for the Utah Jazz, he was a rookie on a team with basketball legends Karl...
Court Justice
The Inside Story of My Battle Against the NCAA
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
“Like Curt Flood and Oscar Robertson, who paved the way for free agency in sports, Ed O’Bannon decided there was a principle at stake… O’Bannon gave the movement to reform college sports…passion and purpose, animated by righteous indignation.” —Jeremy Schaap, ESPN journalist and New...
Jumping at the Chance
From the Court to the Field, How NBA Hopefuls are Changing Australian Rules Football
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
The true story of how professional Australian Rules Football found an unlikely new source of talent in the United States.
Though most Americans automatically think “rugby” when they hear or read the phrase “Australian football,” the two sports actually have very little in common besides...