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The NBA According to The Sports Guy
ESPN Books
November 2009
On Sale: October 27, 2009
736 pages
ISBN: 034551176X
EAN: 9780345511768
Hardcover
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There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough
basketball knowledge and passion to write the definitive
book on the NBA.* Bill Simmons, the from-the-womb hoops
addict known to millions as ESPN.com’s Sports Guy, is that
writer. And The Book of Basketball is that book. Nowhere in the roundball universe will you find another
single volume that covers as much in such depth as this
wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining look at the
past, present, and future of pro basketball. 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. * More to the point, he’s the only one crazy enough to try
to pull it off.
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