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Best of B-Ball Best of B-Ball Recently Published Titles on Basketball Basketball : Great The Soul of Basketball : Writing About the Epic Showdown America's Game Between LeBron, by Alexander Wolff Kobe, Doc, and Dirk A veteran Sports Illustrated That Saved the NBA writer offers in-depth profiles on by Ian Thomsen the legendary players and A narrative chronicle of the franchises in the 80-year history transformations throughout the of the sport, along with NBA that played out most contributions and personal notably during the 2010-2011 reflections on the game yb season traces the particular Donald Hall, John Edgar stories of LeBron James, Kobe Wideman, and Pat Conroy. Bryant, Doc Rivers, Dirk Nowitzki and other stars who were at the forefront of significant league changes. LeBron, Inc. : the Making of a Billion-Dollar A thlete The City Game : Triumph, by Brian Windhorst Scandal, and a Legendary The best-selling author of Return of Basketball Team the King traces the story of LeBron by Matthew Goodman James' professional journey to Documents the controversial story of becoming a billion-dollar global the mid-20th-century Harlem City brand and businessman who has College Beavers, tracing how the influenced how professional athletes merit-based team of Jewish and understand their value. African-American players won major tournaments in the face of segregation before its The Mamba Mentality : starting five were arrested for a major gambling How I Play racket. by Kobe Bryant In the wake of his retirement from Darkness to Light : a professional basketball, an NBA great Memoir nicknamed "The Black Mamba” has decided to share by Lamar Odom his vast knowledge and understanding of the game The two-time NBA champion to take readers on an unprecedented journey to the presents a candid account of the core of his legendary “Mamba mentality.” highs and lows of his life, sharing insights into his marriage to Khloe Sprawlball : a Visual Tour Kardashian, his struggles with of the New Era of the NBA addiction and the watershed event by Kirk Patrick Goldsberry that transformed his perspectives. "From the leading expert in the exploding field fo basketball analytics, a stunning infographic decoding of the modern NBA: who shoots where, and how" Lindenhurst Memorial Library 1 Lee Avenue Lindenhurst, New York 11757 | (631) 957-7755 https://www.lindenhurstlibrary.org/ Best of B-Ball Recently Published Titles on Basketball The Last Temptation of The Last Pass : Cousy, Rick Pitino : a Story of Russell, the Celtics, Corruption, Scandal, and What Matters in and the Big Business of the End College Basketball by Gary M Pomerantz by Michael Y Sokolove "Bob Cousy, the Hall of Fame Details the massive corruption Boston Celtics captain who led scandal that threatened to the team to its first six bring down the NCAA after the championships on an University of Louisville and other unparalleled run, has much to colleges were discovered look back on in contentment. laundering money through an But he has one last piece of Adidas sponsorship to bribe students to attend unfinished business. heT last pass he hopes to throw certain schools. is to close the circle with his great partner on those Celtic teams, fellow Hall of Famer Bill Russell, now 84. Pitino : My Story These teammates were basketball's Ruth and Gehrig, and Cooz, as everyone calls him, was famously ahead by Rick Pitino of his time as an NBA player in terms of race and civil The legendary basketball coach rights. But as the decades passed, Cousy blamed relates his career and sheds light on himself for not having done enough, for not having the scandals of the past and the one understood the depth of prejudice Russell faced as that ultimately derailed his career at an African-American star in a city with a fraught Louisville history regarding race. Cousy wishes he had defended Russell publicly, and that he had told him privately that he had his back. At this late hour, he Hang Time : My Life in confided ot acclaimed historian Gary Pomerantz over Basketball the course of many interviews, he would like to make by Elgin Baylor amends. THE LAST PASS situates the Celtics dynasty The 11-time NBA All-Star and 2006 against the full dramatic canvas of American life in NBA Executive of the Year traces his the 50s and 60s. It is an enthralling portrait of the career in professional basketball, heart of this legendary team that throws open a touching on such subjects as the window onto the wider world at a time of wrenching vertical-versus-horizontal strategies social change. Ultimately it is a book about the that shaped him as both a player and legacy of a life: what matters to us in the end, long a general manager, his battles against racism and his after the arena lights have been turned off and we relationship with the notorious Donald Sterling. are alone with our memories" Three Seconds in Munich : The Controversial 1972 Olympic Basketball Final by David A. F. Sweet Lindenhurst Memorial Library 1 Lee Avenue Lindenhurst, New York 11757 | (631) 957-7755 https://www.lindenhurstlibrary.org/ Best of B-Ball Recently Published Titles on Basketball Breaking Barriers : a Getting to Us : How History of Integration Great Coaches Make in Professional Great Teams Basketball by Seth Davis by Douglas Stark "What makes a coach great? "This book charts the progress of How do great coaches turn a integration in basketball, from collection of individuals into a the first black professional coherent 'us?' Seth Davis, one of basketball player in 1902 to the the keenest minds in sports modern game played by the journalism, has been thinking likes of Stephen Curry and about that question for twenty- LeBron James. These crucial five years. It's one of the things steps in the history of basketball are placedwithin the that drove him to write the definitive biography of larger context of American history, making this book college basketball's greatest coach, John Wooden, an essential addition to the literature on sports and Wooden: A Coach's Life. But John Wooden coached a race in America" long time ago. The world has changed, and coaching has too, tremendously. Seth Davis decided to embark All the Dreams We've on a proper investigation to get to the root of the matter. In Getting to Us, Davis probes and prods the Dreamed : a Story of best of the best from the landscape of active coaches Hoops and Handguns on of football and basketball, college and pro ... to get at Chicago's West Side the fundamental ingredients of greatness in the by Rus Bradburd coaching sphere" A tale of courage, endurance, and friendship in one of America's most Sugar : Micheal Ray violent neighborhoods follows the Richardson, Eighties experiences of coach Shawn Harrington and his John Excess, and the NBA Marshall High School team over a series of three years marked by murder, racism, and corruption by Charles Rosen "Sugar considers aspects of the league's dysfunction in light of Canyon Dreams : A basketball's rapidly increasing Basketball Season on the popularity during the 1970s and Navajo Nation 1980s" by Michael Powell A tribute to the role of sports in The Sixth Man : a Memoir struggling Navajo communities by Andre Iguodala chronicles a season with the Chinle The NBA swingman and All-Star High School basketball team, sharing shares insights into his remarkable insights into their exhilarating wins, crushing losses career, discussing such topics as his and culture-shaped dreams. Illustrations. 2012 Men's Basketball Olympics gold- medal win, his 2015 NBA championship with the Warriors and his off-court successes as a Silicon Valley insider. Lindenhurst Memorial Library 1 Lee Avenue Lindenhurst, New York 11757 | (631) 957-7755 https://www.lindenhurstlibrary.org/ Best of B-Ball Recently Published Titles on Basketball Games of Deception : Tigerland : 1968-1969, the True Story of the a City Divided, a First U.S. Olympic Nation Torn Apart, and Basketball Team at the a Magical Season of 1936 Olympics in Healing Hitler's Germany by Wil Haygood by Andrew Maraniss The best-selling author of The The best-selling author of Butler and Showdown presents Strong Inside presents the an inspiring account of how the remarkable true story of the baseball and basketball teams birth of Olympic basketball at the 1936 Summer of Columbus' segregated East Games, from its invention by James Naismith and High School navigated racial debut in Hitler’s Berlin to the eclectic mix of people, turbulence to win the Ohio state championships in events and propaganda that made it possible. the 1968-1969 season The Back Roads to March : From the Outside : My the Unsung, Unheralded, Journey Through Life and and Unknown Heroes of a the Game I Love College Basketball Season by Ray Allen by John Feinstein The record-holding, two-time NBA The best-selling author of A Season champion reflects on his orkw ethic, on the Brink celebrates lesser-known on-the-court friendships and rivalries Cinderella stories from college and what he has learned about what basketball, describing how a small is needed for a long and successful handful of players, coaches and under-funded career in a memoir that includes coverage of his schools rose from obscurity to secure NCAA rankings. military upbringing and his unforgettable 2013 Game Six three-pointer. Basketball : a Love Story The Victory Machine : The by Jackie MacMullan A revelatory history of basketball, Making and Unmaking of published to coincide with a major the Warriors Dynasty ESPN and ABC series, draws on by Ethan Sherwood Strauss hundreds of interviews with leading A top NBA reporter investigates the athletes, coaches, executives and team culture, financial struggles and journalists from the NBA, WNBA, internal strife of the championship- NCAA and international leagues.
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