Basketball category: 1106 books
by Gordon Jones, Eric Stark
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
This book reveals the most critical moments and important facts about past and present players, coaches, and teams that are part of the storied history that is 76ers basketball. Scattered throughout the pages are superstars, records, and Sixers lore to test any fan’s knowledge, from the franchise’s...
Playing Like a Girl
Transforming Our Lives Through Team Sports
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
More and more women and girls are discovering the joy and relishing the fierce competition of team sports. Their increasing participation in sports is influencing all aspects of women’s—and men’s—lives. Playing Like a Girl explores the ramifications of this sports revolution, such as the change...
High Five
Duke's Unforgettable 2015 Championship Season
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Duke’s win over Wisconsin in the 2015 NCAA championship game was the culmination of a basketball season no Blue Devils fan will ever forget. Led by a talented freshman class featuring All-American center Jahlil Okafor, guard Tyus Jones, and forward Justise Winslow, Coach Mike Krzyzewski’s squad...
Sport in Iceland
How Small Nations Achieve International Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Iceland is a tiny Nordic nation with a population of just 330,000 and no professional sports leagues, and yet its soccer, basketball and handball teams have all qualified for major international tournaments in recent years. This fascinating study argues that team sport success is culturally produced...
by Daniel Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
During the African American cultural resurgence of the 1920s and 1930s, professional athletes shared the spotlight with artists and intellectuals. Negro League baseball teams played in New York City's major-league stadiums and basketball clubs shared the bill with jazz bands at late night casinos....
The Miracle of Richfield
The Story of the 1975–76 Cleveland Cavaliers
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Three years before Brian Sipe began his magic with the Cleveland Browns, Bill Fitch and his band of Cavaliers brought a buzz to Northeast Ohio basketball that fans had never seen before. Despite a rough start to their 1975–76 season, the Cavaliers rode the shoulders of Akron native Nate Thurmond...
by Morgan Berkshire
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Los Angeles Clippers basketball team owner Donald Sterling became involved in a scandal in late April of 2014 related to a recorded conversation in which he showed himself to be a racist. As the world follows the news and awaits the final outcome of the scandal, and as tension mounts about whether...
She's Got Next
Life Played Under a Hoop
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
When Melissa King, a transplanted southerner in search of connection, finds herself on the lean, mean streets of Chicago, she turns to her childhood passion for basketball. In her late twenties, King is at a crossroads in her life, and the randomness of the game as it is played on the streets suits...
Plantation Education
The Exploitation of the Modern-Day Athlete-Student
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Based on his own experience and others who were entrenched in the university athletic system, Rashad reveals how academic fraud continues to steal a “real” education from young black athletes.
Rashad recounts his own journey as an athlete-student, seeing the talent of his idols like Michael...
Here Comes Duke: The Drive for Five
The Official Men's Basketball Championship Book of Duke Athletics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
The 2014–15 season will be etched in the memories of Duke fans forever. The Blue Devils won the program’s fifth national championship and Coach Mike Krzyzewski collected his unprecedented 1,000th career win. Freshmen Jahlil Okafor, Tyus Jones, and Justise Winslow led Duke to a 28–3 regular season...
by Vero Vysosias
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
CircBall is a unique game of skill for indoor or outdoor basketball sports. Circball is a new and alternative sport that uses a circular court and cluster of ring baskets which involves a mixture of competitive & cooperative game of play.
by Marious Kim Jack
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Coachingoachingoaching technique is a modern sports didactic that has its fair share of methods and theories exposed throughout its own special history. That takes into consideration the men who took part in its development. No one can study physics without coming across the contributions of the famous...
Basket Drills Handbook
120 drills for Under 15s and above
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
During the ‘80s, when my generation of coaches was being initiated to this career, drills were invested of excessive importance: the challenge was that of finding, or creating, the most spectacular, choreographic drills. e more complex the drill, the more, it seemed, it was able to satisfy our...
Tao of Hoops
The Complete Tao
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
This book, by design, is intended to be a handbook, a guide, not a text book. The purpose of which is to give direction to anyone who sincerely wishes to add depth, knowledge, to the playing or coaching of basketball. The order is disjointed purposefully, so that anyone, can pick the book up at anytime,...