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“mark heisler”

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  • Madmen's Ball

    The Continuing Saga of Kobe, Phil, and the Los Angeles Lakers

    by Mark Heisler ...
    In this revised and expanded edition, Los Angeles Times writer Mark Heisler investigates the 45-year history of the Los Angeles Lakers and unveils a pattern of pampered and/or misguided players, megalomaniacal executives, and owners whose obsessive drives for championships and attention combined to create an atmosphere of conflict for decades Throughout the entire 2003–04 season, fans and the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bob Knight

    The Unauthorized Biography

    by Steve Delsohn, Mark Heisler ...
    Brilliant, intimidating, charming, or profane, Coach Bob Knight is an enduring contradiction who has long fascinated and repelled basketball fans, for whom he has provided as much to dislike as to respect.Bob Knight: The Unauthorized Biography is the first comprehensive biography of Knight, one of the most successful and controversial coaches in the history of American sports. Detailing the entire ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Dr. J

    The Autobiography

    by Julius Erving, Karl Taro Greenfeld ...
    An honest, unflinching self-portrait of the basketball legend, told in Julius "The Doctor" Erving's own voice. "A terrific memoir by a man worthy of one." — Sports IllustratedWith his flights of improvisation around the basket and his towering Afro, Julius Erving became one of the most charismatic (and revolutionary) players basketball has ever known. But while the public has long revered this ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Underdawgs

    How Brad Stevens and the Butler Bulldogs Marched Their Way to the Brink of College Basketball's National Championship

    by David Woods ...
    Butler University in Indianapolis became the smallest school in 40 years to reach the NCAA championship game. Prior to the tournament, a statistician calculated the Bulldogs as a 200-to-1 shot to win. But as fascinating as what Butler accomplished was how they did it. Underdawgs tells the incredible and uplifting story.Butler’s coach, 33-year-old Brad Stevens, looked so young he was often mistaken ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Heaven Is a Playground

    4th Edition

    by Rick Telander ...
    Heaven Is a Playground was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball. Rick Telander, a photojournalist and former high school basketball player, spent part of the summer of 1973 and all of the summer of 1974 in Brooklyn living the playground life with his subjects at Foster Park in Flatbush. He slept on the floor of a park regular’s apartment, observing, questioning, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Grads Are Playing Tonight! (The)

    The Story of the Edmonton Commercial Graduates Basketball Club

    by M. Ann Hall ...
    Between 1915 and 1940 the amazing Edmonton Grads dominated women’s basketball in Canada. Coached by J. Percy Page, they played over 400 official games, losing only 20; they travelled more than 125,000 miles in Canada, the United States, and Europe; and they crossed the Atlantic three times to defend their world title at exhibition games held in conjunction with the Summer Olympics in Paris, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Rebound!: Basketball, Busing, Larry Bird, and the Rebirth of Boston

    Basketball, Busing, Larry Bird, and the Rebirth of Boston

    by Michael Connelly ...
    In the mid-1970s, the city of Boston entered a period of upheaval on both its historic cobblestone streets and its legendary parquet basketball court. The Boston Celtics' long dominance of the NBA came to an abrupt end, and the city's image as a hub of social justice was shaken to its core. When the federal courts declared, in 1974, that the city was in violation of school desegregation rulings ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Chasing Perfect

    The Will to Win in Basketball and Life

    by Bob Hurley ...
    The inspiring story of the most famous high school basketball coach in America.In 40 seasons as the head coach of St. Anthony High School, a private parochial school in Jersey City, New Jersey, Bob Hurley has established a standard of excellence and achievement without peer, and remarkably, he has done this at a high school with a total student body enrollment of about 230, with no gymnasium, and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The World's Greatest Team

    A Portrait of the Boston Celtics, 1957–69

    by Jeff Greenfield ...
    The definitive history of the most dominant team in American sports historyNo superlatives are equal to the Boston Celtics of the 1960s. From 1959 to 1966 they won championship after championship, an eight-in-a-row streak that outshines any other in American sports. Led by coach Red Auerbach, center Bill Russell, and point guard Bob Cousy, they played a kind of basketball that seemed to come from ... Read more

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  • A Perfect Fit

    by Luther Wright, Karen Hunter ...
    FORMER NBA STAR LUTHER WRIGHT SHARES HIS HARROWING AND UPLIFTING JOURNEY OF FINDING GOD—AND HIMSELF—WHEN HE HAD NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE.Luther Wright had the life hoop dreams are made of. A first-round NBA draft pick for the Utah Jazz, he was a rookie on a team with basketball legends Karl Malone and John Stockton. He had money, women, cars, and a luxurious bachelor pad overlooking Salt Lake City. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Butler Way, The

    The Best of Butler Basketball

    by David Woods ...
    The Butler Way opens with a discussion of the Butler Way. Barry Collier, a former Butler player, was hired as coach in 1989 and slowly rebuilt a program that has declined since the days of Tony Hinkle. Collier emphasized the Butler way which featured team play. Fans will also be pleased to read about the famed Hinkle Fieldhouse, the greatest coaches, teams, players, and great moments in the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Sweetwater

    A Biography of Nathaniel “Sweetwater” Clifton

    by Frank Foster ...
    When Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey decided to break the “color line” and integrate major league baseball in the 1940s, he spent years doing exhaustive background research and interviewing players. This role could not just go to an extraordinary athlete, but one of immense character as wellThings went down with integration in the National Basketball Association a bit differently. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD