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  • Brothers on Three

    A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana

    by Abe Streep ...
    **Winner of the 2021 Montana Book Award****Winner of the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona General Nonfiction Book Award****Finalist for the Spur Award for Best Contemporary Nonfiction****A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick**"A heart-stomping, heart-stopping read. Unsentimental. Unforgettable. Astonishing. Brothers on Three captures the roar of a community spirit powered by bl... ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Hardwood Edge: Mastering NBA Daily Fantasy Sports

    by David Moore ...
    Hardwood Edge is the ultimate playbook for serious NBA DFS players who want to win consistently—not just get lucky. Whether you're grinding single-entry contests, firing 150 max lineups, or navigating late-swap chaos, this book teaches you how to build smarter lineups, track the shifting DFS meta, and think like a professional.From understanding player roles, usage rate, and pace, to leveraging ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius

    What Game Designers, Economists, Ballet Choreographers, and Theoretical Astrophysicists Reveal About the Greatest Game on Earth

    by Nick Greene ...
    A brilliant, entertaining deconstruction of basketball, drawing on the expertise of board-game creators, magicians, therapists, and moreBasketball is the second-most popular sport in the world—an insanely complicated game built on a combination of athleticism, craftiness, rules, intangibles, and superstardom. However, while it’s enjoyable to watch, the real reason it works is because it’s a game ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Betaball

    How Silicon Valley and Science Built One of the Greatest Basketball Teams in History

    by Erik Malinowski ...
    “As lively, thorough, and engaging as the team it chronicles” (Nathaniel Friedman), Betaball is a compelling look at how the Golden State Warriors embraced savvy business practices, next generation science, and Silicon Valley’s technocentric culture not only to produce one of the greatest basketball teams in history but also to revolutionize the NBA—perfect for fans of Moneyball and The Book of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Expensive Basketball

    by Shea Serrano ...
    **AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - One of Barnes & Noble's Best Sports Books of 2025From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Rap Year Book and Basketball (and Other Things), a clever and inventive examination of some of basketball's most iconic players, moments, games, and more, with original illustrations by Ian Klarer.**Everything in basketball is measured. Everything in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The City Game

    Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team

    by Matthew Goodman ...
    The powerful story of a college basketball team who carried an era’s brightest hopes—racial harmony, social mobility, and the triumph of the underdog—but whose success was soon followed by a shocking downfall“A masterpiece of American storytelling.”—Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Devil in the GroveNAMED ONE OF THE BEST SPORTS BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWThe ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • Tigerland

    1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing

    by Wil Haygood ...
    Against the backdrop of one of the most tumultuous periods in recent American history, as riots and demonstrations spread across the nation, the Tigers of poor, segregated East High School in Columbus, Ohio did something no team from one school had ever done before: they won the state basketball and baseball championships in the same year. They defeated bigger, richer, whiter teams across the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Big East

    Inside the Most Entertaining and Influential Conference in College Basketball History

    by Dana O'Neil ...
    The definitive, compulsively readable story of the greatest era of the most iconic league in college basketball history—the Big East“This book, full of long-standing rivalries, unmatched moments in the lives of coaches and players, and juicy insider gossip, is, like the game of basketball, a ton of fun.”—Philadelphia magazineThe names need no introduction: Thompson and Patrick, Boeheim and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • I Came As a Shadow

    An Autobiography

    by John Thompson ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKThe long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University’s legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court throws America’s unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp reliefJohn Thompson was never just a basketball coach and I Came As a Shadow is categorically not just a basketball autobiography.After three decades at the center of race and sports ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • There's Always This Year

    On Basketball and Ascension

    by Hanif Abdurraqib ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “powerful” (The Guardian) reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America“Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I’ve ever read but one of the most moving books I’ve ever read, period.”—Steve James, director of Hoop ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Standing Tall

    A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph

    by C. Vivian Stringer, Laura Tucker ...
    “Lots of people have dreams, but C. Vivian Stringer is the dream—a coalminer’s daughter who believed when her Poppa told her there was no obstacle she could not surmount. And she lives that dream, teaching others to rise up to meet challenges, turning underdogs into champions again and again—on and off the court. This is the quintessential American story, of a woman and of a family pulling ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Jump

    My Secret Journey from the Streets to the Boardroom

    by Larry Miller, Laila Lacy ...
    IN THE MARGINS 2023 TOP TITLE FOR NONFICTIONOne of the most successful Black businessmen in the country, who has led Nike’s Jordan Brand from a $200M sneaker company to a $4B global apparel juggernaut, tells the remarkable story of his rise from gangland violence to the pinnacles of international business.Jump, an unflinching business biography, tells Larry Miller’s journey from the violent ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Lucky Me

    A Memoir of Changing the Odds

    by Rich Paul ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A memoir of will, success, and the luck we make—from the founder and CEO of Klutch Sports Group and one of the most influential figures in the multibillion-dollar sports industry“One of the greatest stories of growing up in America’s ghettos and overcoming adversity.”—Jay-Z“The minute I met Rich, I knew he was different.”—LeBron James, from the ForewordA BET BEST... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Boys Among Men

    How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution

    by Jonathan Abrams ...
    The definitive, never-before-told story of the prep-to-pro generation, those basketball prodigies who from 1995 to 2005 made the jump directly from high school to the NBA.When Kevin Garnett shocked the world by announcing that he would not be attending college—as young basketball prodigies were expected to do—but instead enter the 1995 NBA draft directly from high school, he blazed a trail for a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Legacy

    The Los Angeles Lakers' Unforgettable Run to the 2020 NBA Title

    Edited by The Los Angeles Daily News ...
    Celebrating the 2020 NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers! The Los Angeles Lakers reclaimed the throne in 2020, triumphing over the Miami Heat in an NBA season like no other. Legacy: The Los Angeles Lakers' Unforgettable Run to the 2020 NBA Title takes fans through the unpredictable and remarkable 2019-2020 season which put them rightfully back on top. Led by LeBron James and Anthony Davis, this Lakers ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When the Knicks Became Champs

    A Courtside View of the Team's First NBA Championship Season, 1969–70

    by Mike Shatzkin ...
    The gutsiest New York Knicks team in history is celebrated in this eyewitness account of the 1969–70 season, featuring Willis Reed, Walt "Clyde" Frazier, Bill Bradley, and the rest of the Big Apple's hardwood heroes from nearly fifty years ago.In their long and storied NBA history, the New York Knicks have won only two league championships—1970 and 1973. And that original 1970 group of champions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Won't Back Down

    Teams, Dreams, and Family

    by Kim Mulkey, Peter May ...
    Whether on a baseball field as the only girl on an all-boys team in Hammond, Louisiana, or on a basketball court where her play-making ability was compared to Louisiana legend Pistol Pete Maravich, Kim Mulkey was a young athlete so gifted she was named to Parade magazine's 1980 All-America High School Girls Basketball team.Mulkey went on to win two national championships at Louisiana Tech, as well ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Book of Basketball

    The NBA According to The Sports Guy

    by Bill Simmons ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The wildly opinionated, thoroughly entertaining, and arguably definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA—from the founder of The Ringer and host of The Bill Simmons Podcast“Enough provocative arguments to fuel barstool arguments far into the future.”—The Wall Street JournalIn The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for a. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Wartime Basketball

    The Emergence of a National Sport during World War II

    by Douglas Stark ...
    Wartime Basketball tells the story of basketball’s survival and development during World War II and how those years profoundly affected the game’s growth after the war. Prior to World War II, basketball—professional and collegiate—was largely a regional game, with different styles played throughout the country. Among its many impacts on home-front life, the war forced pro and amateur leagues to ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Blueprint

    LeBron James, Cleveland's Deliverance, and the Making of the Modern NBA

    by Jason Lloyd ...
    An unputdownable, must-have sports book for every LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers, and NBA fan.June 19, 2016: the greatest moment in Cleveland sports history, when the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA Finals and broke the Cleveland Curse. It was the triumph fans had been waiting fifty-two years for, and it wasn’t easy to get there—but thanks to LeBron James, an audacious plan to build a winning ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Out of Bounds

    by Darren Ault ...
    When a disgruntled freshman and her ambitious parents make a ruthless decision to tear down a well-respected coach, thirty-three years of dedication come crashing to an end. A decorated coach faces a shocking suspension, his reputation ripped apart by baseless allegations and a superficial investigation led by an inept board of education.In Out of Bounds, the fallout from this betrayal unravels, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Legends and Soles

    The Memoir of an American Original

    by Sonny Vaccaro, Armen Keteyian ...
    The founding of Nike as told in Shoe Dog is only part of the story, it doesn’t recognize the genius marketing coup that changed the fortunes of the company.The film “Air” highlighted Sonny Vaccaro's brilliant signing of NBA legend Michael Jordan to Nike as a rookie, but the movie’s scope didn’t include the beginning and everything that happened after the Jordan signing revolutionized sports ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • You Let Some Girl Beat You?

    The Story of Ann Meyers Drysdale

    by Ann Meyers Drysdale, Joni Ravenna ...
    "Annie was one of the best players ever. I didn't say male or female; I said ever."—Bill Russell, former Boston Celtics playerAnn Meyers Drysdale is one of the greatest stars in the history of basketball. But her rise wasn't without controversy. Her 1979 NBA bid to play with the Indiana Pacers brought a barrage of criticism. But Ann simply wanted to play among the best. She had always competed ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Kobe Bryant

    Laker for Life

    by The Los Angeles Daily News ...
    After 20 unforgettable years in the NBA, Kobe Bryant is calling it a career. All he's done in those two decades is establish himself as one of the best to ever play the game, arguably the greatest Laker ever and the most popular athlete in the history of Los Angeles sports. The Black Mamba's path to iconic status started quietly as the 13th pick of the 1996 NBA Draft by the Charlotte Hornets but ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus