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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.323640973
Fabric Type: 9780345511768
Fax Number: First Edition
Legal Disclaimer: 034551176X
Maximum Color Depth: ESPN
Metal Type: ESPN
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 736
Total External Bays Free: October 27, 2009
Total Firewire Ports: ESPN
Total Parallel Ports: October 27, 2009
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Features:- ISBN13: 9780345511768
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
Amazon Best of the Month, October 2009: The Book of Basketball is a 700-page work of hoops genius that would make Dr. James Naismith beam proudly – and probably blush. Author Bill Simmons, best known as ESPN.com's "The Sports Guy," explores the NBA with hilarious insight, brilliant analysis, and a bevy of irreverent footnotes. Simmons is a fan first – a fact best explained in an entertaining foreword by Malcolm Gladwell – and writes from the stands, not the press room. His knowledge and passion for the game provide him with few peers, yet his voice represents those who stick by their teams through thick and thin. As a result, The Book of Basketball is not just a tribute to hardwood heroes, but also a celebration of yelling at TV sets, revering lucky jerseys, and holding our breath until the final buzzer sounds. Throw in pages of nearly-insane statistical breakdowns (including a projected boxscore from the movie Teen Wolf), and it's easy to see why fans of all levels should clear shelf space for this instant classic. --Dave Callanan
Product Description:
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.
Average Rating: 
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As a lifelong Lakers fan and the absolute biggest Boston Celtics hater you will ever find, I was somewhat doubtful whether I should buy this book. I was well aware of the sports guys almost pathological hatred of great Lakers such as Kareem and Kobe and I did not think he could do a book and be fair in his pyramid ratings of them, nor anyone who didn`t play for the Celtics. I finally got the book and am glad I did. Simmons took plenty of shots at Kareem, but, ultimately gave him a 3rd best player ... Read More
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Discard the Amazon Best of the Month review. Gibberish. An "instant classic"? A case of "hoops genius"? Must have been Simmons' buddy who wrote that. This is hardly the stuff of legend. But I liked it nevertheless, with a few key caveats. Although the book often seems slapdash, sloppy, and unedited, Simmons generally has an engaging way with words. A nice style. Most of the book is devoted to ranking the top hundred or so players of all time. These chapters are fun to read, full of interesting insights ... Read More
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I bought this book because I enjoyed how Bill Simmons can "write funny" on his column and I have been a fan of the NBA since I was a child. His book was great, filling me in on stats and stories about my favorite, and most hated, players in the league from the past fifty years. Some of the stories took me back to my child hood when I played one on one with my best friend for hours on end and we would start a mini draft like; I get bird, he takes Magic, I take Jordan, etc, and the debate on who was the ... Read More
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The most fun I had reading a book in a long time.
Entertaining, funny, and loads of stats and information
Don't be intimdiated by the amount of pages. I skipped a lot.
A lot of pop culture references which was hard to keep up with.
Simmons knows a lot of useless stuff but I love it.
Didn't like all the criticisms of some of the great players: Stockton, K. Malone, Oscar Robertson, etc...
Obviously, Simmons loved certain players more than others: ... Read More
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The Book of Basketball, by Bill Simmons, is a massive work on the state of the NBA and how it got to where it is today. If you're a fan of his blog, The Sports Guy, then you'll love this book.
Simmons discusses the NBA in his typical fashion--smart, funny, informative, and sarcastic. He isn't afraid to be a fan as well as a sportswriter, and this is why people love him. His writing style flows along easily, and the footnotes in this book--that's right, footnotes in a sports book--are as ... Read More
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