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The book of basketball : the NBA according to the sports guy / Bill Simmons.
LIBRA GV885.1 .S46 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simmons, Bill, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Basketball Association.
- Basketball.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 715 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ballantine/ESPN Books, [2009]
- Summary:
- Bill Simmons, the from-the-womb hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.com's Sports Guy, offers in a single volume his wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining look at the past, present, and future of pro basketball.
- Contents:
- Prologue: A four-dollar ticket
- The secret
- Russell, then Wilt
- How the hell did we get here?
- The what-if game
- Most valuable chapter
- The Hall of Fame pyramid
- The pyramid: level 1
- The pyramid: level 2
- The pyramid: level 3
- The pyramid: level 4
- The pyramid: Pantheon
- The legend of Keyser Söze
- The wine cellar
- Life after the secret.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [701]-702) and index.
- ISBN:
- 034551176X
- 9780345511768
- OCLC:
- 244416676
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