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The undisputed guide to pro basketball history.

Van Pelt Library GV885.13 U63 2010
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
FreeDarko (Collective)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
National Basketball Association--History.
National Basketball Association.
National Basketball Association--Humor.
Basketball--History.
Basketball.
Basketball--Humor.
Basketball players--Biography.
Basketball players.
Genre:
Nonfiction.
humor.
Biographies.
History.
Humor.
Physical Description:
223 pages : color illustrations, color maps, color charts ; 24 cm
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Other Title:
Basketball history
FreeDarko presents the undisputed guide to pro basketball
Place of Publication:
New York : Bloomsbury, 2010.
Summary:
"This inimitable collective returns with a bigger scope, deeper research, and renewed passion as [FreeDarko] takes on the whole of pro basketball history. Here we'll see the full evolution of the league: from the Celtics of Red Auerbach (compared by FreeDarko to the filmmaker John Cassavetes) clear through to the years of Frazier, Jordan, Iverson, and LeBron and Kobe. Of course, it's more than simply a history. In these pages we'll also see a taxonomy of every fight in NBA history, the relationship between Wilt Chamberlain's scoring and the atom bomb, and a feature known as the Mustache Index."--Amazon.com.
Contents:
Chapter Zero. 1891-1946 Up From The Waters
Down by Law
Go Forth and Dribble
Only the Ball Was Orange
Chapter One. 1947-1956 A More Perfect Union
Mikan and Modernity
Chapter Two. 1957-1969 They Walked This Earth
Green and Black and Red All Over
Pride of the Celtics
The Nuclear Option
Three on a Match
Bushels and Baskets
Missing in Action
Chapter Three. 1970-1979 The Big Payback
The Get Along Gang
Notes from the Underground
Left of Center
The Hair Up There
Punch-Dunk Lovetron
Legalize It!
Chapter Four. 1980-1990 The Gold Standard
Choose Your Weapon
The Invention of Air
Loud, Fat, and Gifted
It Came from Croatia
Fantasia No. 84
Chapter Five. 1991-1999 A Tale Of Two Three-Peats
Jordan and His Discontents
Dream Team II
Cult of Personality
Rotten Island
A History of Violence
Ashes Beget Ashes
Chapter Six. 2000-2009 The New Deuteronomy
One Shining Moment
Fast-Break Renaissance
Big Man Blues
In Plain Sight
Arbiters of Amazement.
Notes:
At head of title: FreeDarko presents.
"A history of pro basketball unlike any other"--Page 4 of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (page 212) and index.
ISBN:
9781608190836
1608190838
OCLC:
555656646

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