5-Minute Basketball Stories


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5-Minute Basketball Stories is an action-packed collection of twelve tales about today’s superstars, NBA legends, and the best basketball games of all time. From incredible game-winning dunks, to jaw-dropping world records, to edge-of-your-seat comebacks—each story is perfect for reading aloud in five minutes. Ideal for young fans and future stars, 5-Minute Basketball Stories includes: Steph Curry overcoming doubts to score 17 points in five minutes of overtime Kevin Durant setting a Guinness World Record in India along with over 3,000 kids LeBron James clinching the NBA Championship for the Cleveland Cavaliers for the first time ever Steve Nash surprising opponents with his fast “seven seconds or less” playing style that changed basketball James Naismith using two peach baskets and a couple ladders to invent the world’s fastest-growing sport Michael Jordan making his legendary “Last Shot” in a must-win game for the Chicago Bulls Candace Parker picking up basketball at age 13 to become the best WNBA player of all time The US Dream Team of the world’s best basketball players learning from a shocking loss to win Olympic Gold in 1992 Plus Yao Ming, Andrew Wiggins and Shaquille O’Neal and more…




Play Basketball Like a Pro


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"Provides instructional tips on how to improve one's basketball skills, including quotes and advice from professional coaches and athletes"--Provided by publisher.




Long Shot


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A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.




Taking Shots


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Bring a family of four to an NBA game today, and it costs around $500 to watch a bunch of seven-footers take bad shots. Perhaps the quote often attributed to P.T. Barnum is true—there really is a sucker born every minute. The NBA is in trouble. And as NBA agent Keith Glass describes it—he's part of the problem! If team owners are willing to throw millions of dollars his way for marginal players, why should he be the only one with the self-restraint to say "no"? In his insightful, funny, and often mind-numbingly bizarre tales of life in the NBA over the last twenty- five years, Keith Glass lets it fly from half-court. He'll tell you how we got to the present state—where an agent who makes millions off the game can't sit through one; why our NBA stars couldn't capture Olympic gold; and why the game he loves is in dire need of help. Glass has seen it all as the representative of players like Mark Eaton, the seven-foot-five center found working as a mechanic because he hated basketball; Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, who converted to Islam and brought the wrath of the league upon him when he refused to stand for the National Anthem; and first-round draft pick Quincy Douby, who was forced to enter the draft before graduating from Rutgers because of the harsh NCAA rules regarding college eligibility. With informative chapters such as "How to Feed Your Family on Only $14 Million a Year," "Eighty-one Feet of White Centers," and "From 6'11" to the 7- Eleven," Glass shatters the myth of NBA marketing: that everything about the game is great, and that as long as the fans in the luxury boxes are happy and weighed down with expensive merchandise, all is well. But have no fear! Keith Glass doesn't preach about the evils of highlight film slam-dunks—he'll just have you falling down laughing as he flagrantly fouls the league that was once the envy of the pro sports world.




5-Minute Girl Power Stories


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Read along with Disney! Follow along with word-for-word narration and join your favorite Disney and Pixar girls as they embark on new adventures. Investigate a toy case with Officer McDimples, play hide-and-seek with Moana, enjoy a day out with Helen Parr, and much more! Each story in this collection is ideal for reading aloud in just five minutes—a perfect fit for bedtime, story time, or any time!




Pacific Rims


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A young man's journey through the Philippines' most unlikely obsession: basketball. In Pacific Rims, Rafe Bartholemew, journalist, New Yorker, and veteran baller, ventures through the Philippines to investigate the country's love of basketball. From street corners where diehards fashion hoops out of old car parts to the professional league where politicians exploit team loyalties to win elections, Pacific Rims gets the story-and gets in the game.




The Book of Basketball


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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.




The Boys of Dunbar


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"The inspirational story of the most talented high-school basketball team ever and the dedicated coach who gave his players a lifetime opportunity by insisting on success"--




5-Minute Really True Stories for Bedtime


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"In this compendium of 5-minute really true stories about bedtime, you can go on a journey of wonder and learning to find out the answers to all these questions, and many more! Travel to Ancient Egypt to explore the beds of Tutankhamun, jet off into space to see how astronauts get ready for bed, or even plunge underwater to learn how hibernating turtles breathe through their bottoms!"--Back cover.




Shoot Your Shot: A Sport-Inspired Guide to Living Your Best Life


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In life, just as in sports, you miss all of the shots you don't take. 'Shoot Your Shot' provides a unique and entertaining approach to the self-help book genre by identifying the key principles that the world's most elite basketball players--such as Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and Stephen Curry--have applied to their lives and relates how you, the reader, can use those exact same principles to help you navigate through life and realize your dreams. Divided into "Quarters" and reading as if you are in an actual game, 'Shoot Your Shot' provides a never-before-seen yet effective and enjoyable approach on how to accomplish your goals and attain success. By utilizing examples of techniques employed on the court, the stories of current and former NBA players and personnel, as well as personal recollections from the author, 'Shoot Your Shot' gives you the winning formula on how to live your best life. This book is perfect for any age, background, and standing in life!




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