Author : Tokyopop
Publisher : TokyoPop
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 2007-09-11
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781427804402
Briefly profiles NBA forward stars, including Tim Duncan, LeBron James, and Paul Pierce.
Author : Jon Finkel
Publisher :
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Basketball players
ISBN :
Briefly profiles NBA forward stars, including Tim Duncan, LeBron James, and Paul Pierce.
Author : Michael Grange
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2023-10-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780228104339
In Basketball's Greatest Stars, author Michael Grange takes you courtside for a look at the 50 best players in NBA history. From the early days of Bob Cousy to the Showtime era of Magic Johnson, from Michael Jordan's electrifying dunks to LeBron James' all-out dominance -- the legends are here! Relive the moments and revel in the triumphs of the NBA's superstars, including Kareem Abdul-Jabar, Larry Bird, Stephen Curry, Wilt Chamberlain, Shaquille O'Neal, Oscar Robertson, Kevin Durant, and many more. With a foreword by NBA great Wayne Embry, Basketball's Greatest Stars features insightful essays that highlight the leading figures and defining moments that have shaped the NBA, international basketball and statistical analysis. Profiles of the NBA's 30 franchises round out this incredible volume. Updated for 2023, this fifth edition contains a new crop of 15 young stars who are dominating today's game and could one day reach the heights of Basketball's Greatest, including: Zion Williamson Luka Doncic Ja Morant Jayson Tatum Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Donovan Mitchell. Jam-packed with unforgettable stories, mind-blowing stats and over 120 photos that capture the on-court excitement, Basketball's Greatest Stars is the ultimate book for every NBA fan.
Author : Patrick Donnelly
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1629686670
Get to know some of the greatest NBA forwards, past and present. Featuring Bob Pettit, Larry Bird, Kevin Garnett, LeBron James, and more, this title is sure to excite! Basketball fans will love Spotlight stats and informative boxes for each player. Not to mention great full-color and historic action photographs. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Jon Finkel
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 2009-07-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781442032293
Briefly profiles past NBA masters of the dunk, current practitioners of the art, and those who look promising in this area, as well as the history and results of the dunk contest since 1984.
Author : Ben Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2016-06-29
Category :
ISBN : 9781532968174
Are top scorers really the most valuable players? Are games decided in the final few minutes? Does the team with the best player usually win?Thinking Basketball challenges a number of common beliefs about the game by taking a deep dive into the patterns and history of the NBA. Explore how certain myths arose while using our own cognition as a window into the game's popular narratives. New basketball concepts are introduced, such as power plays, portability and why the best player shouldn't always shoot. Discover how the box score can be misleading, why "closers" are overrated and how the outcome of a game fundamentally alters our memory. Behavioral economics, traffic paradoxes and other metaphors highlight this thought-provoking insight into the NBA and our own thinking. A must-read for any basketball fan -- you'll never view the sport, and maybe the world, the same again.
Author : Matt Jankowski
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2019-12-30
Category : Basketball
ISBN : 9781538247778
From the inception of the NBA in 1946 to the athletes of the league today, this entertaining volume serves as an introduction to the greatest superstars to play the game. The thrilling text is accessible to those who have never played basketball before and includes information on positions, how the game works, and which stats make the difference. Also featured is a section on the WNBA and how women are redefining what it means to excel. Readers will come for the action photographs and stay for the astonishing statistics as they imagine themselves watching the greatest to ever compete.
Author : Tokyopop
Publisher : TokyoPop
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 2007-06-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781427804372
Highlights the careers of nine basketball stars who came to America and the NBA from around the world.
Author : Matt Doeden
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1429648694
The achievements and career statistics of basketball's greatest stars. Whether you like offense or defense, the game's greatest stars can show you how it's done.
Author : Bill Simmons
Publisher : ESPN
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 49,92 MB
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0345520106
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The NBA according to The Sports Guy—now updated with fresh takes on LeBron, the Celtics, and more! Foreword by Malcom Gladwell • “The work of a true fan . . . it might just represent the next phase of sports commentary.”—The Atlantic Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining basketball addict known to millions as ESPN’s The Sports Guy, has written the definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA. From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons’s one-of-a-kind five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball. Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game’s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.
