Basketball category: 1106 books
by Casey Camden
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
A book about more than basketball. Bummy and the Coach is about life, relationships, politics in school systems, and a small town. A middle aged coach and a 97 year old man team up together to create a winning basketball season and a winning book for readers of all ages.
The Original Dream Team
Portrait of the Game
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
The original, and some say only, Dream Team, the greatest sports team ever, was the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team that amazed fans around the world and transformed the NBA into a global phenomenon. The team that created this book are filmmakers and, in every instance, they went for the dramatic...
Rising From the Ashes
The Return of Indiana University Basaketball
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Coach Tom Crean has brought the storied Indiana University Hoosiers basketball program back to national prominence by taking an unranked team at the beginning of the 2011 season all the way to the 2012 Sweet Sixteen.
Indiana University coach since 2008, the story of Coach Crean's successful...
Unbreakable
Louisville's Inspired 2013 Championship Run
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Louisville's win over Michigan in the 2013 NCAA championship game was the culmination of a basketball season few Cardinal fans will ever forget, and this commemorative book takes fans through the team's amazing journey, from their "Battle of the Bluegrass" win over Kentucky to the final...
by Mark Beams
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Kobe Bryant
In His Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Kobe Bryant is an elite NBA basketball player who plays shooting guard for the Los Angeles Lakers. He has helped lead the Lakers to win five championships, which ranks Bryant among the basketball players with the most championship rings in NBA history, trailing only the Bill Russell-led Celtics players,...
Year of the Dunk
A Modest Defiance of Gravity
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
By embarking on a quest to dunk a basketball at the age of 34, journalist Asher Price investigates the limits of human potential—starting with his own.
We all like to think that (with a little practice) we could run faster, learn another language, or whip up a perfect soufflé. But few of us...
Fixed
How Goodfellas Bought Boston College Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2000
Using extensive background research as well as interviews with the principal characters, Fixed provides the first in-depth reconstruction of the point-shaving scandal involving the 1978-1979 Boston College basketball team, from the genesis of the plot in the summer of 1978, through the uncovering...
Making March Madness
The Early Years of the NCAA, NIT, and College Basketball Championships, 1922-1951
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Throughout the NCAA Tournament’s history, underdogs, Cinderella stories, and upsets have captured the attention and imagination of fans. Making March Madness is the story of this premiere tournament, from its early days in Kansas City, to its move to Madison Square Garden, to its surviving a point-shaving...
by Jon M. Fishman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Los Angeles Clippers superstar Blake Griffin is a mighty force with a basketball in his hands. No one in the National Basketball Association (NBA) dunks the ball more often or with as much power. His older brother Taylor drew most of the attention on the court growing up. But by the time the two starred...
by Jeff Savage
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Dwyane Wade plays his best when the game is on the line. He's been thrilling fans of the National Basketball Association (NBA) with his fearless moves to the hoop for more than ten seasons. Dwyane became an even bigger superstar when he helped the Miami Heat win the NBA championship in 2012 and 2013....
Tales from the Kansas Jayhawks Locker Room
A Collection of the Greatest Jayhawks Basketball Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
One of the most storied college basketball programs in America, the Kansas Jayhawks have produced some of the greatest legends to ever roam the hardwood. In this newly revised edition of Tales from the Kansas Jayhawks Locker Room, fans can sift through a treasure trove of first-hand memories from the players and coaches who made history at the University of Kansas.
by Brian Lester
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
In the wake of a humiliating loss in the NCAA tournament a year earlier, no one imagined the University of Findlay men’s basketball team would rise up from the ashes of the defeat and produce one of the greatest seasons in college hoops history.
Ranked No. 1 in the preseason and well aware...
Dick Vitale's Living A Dream
Reflections on 25 Years Sitting in the Best Seat in the House
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Since joining ESPN in 1979, Dick Vitale has become the senior spokesman for college hoops. In Living A Dream, Vitale reveals details about his start at ESPN and shares his feelings about the most important people in the college basketball world. A must-have for any basketball fan.