Basketball

Basketball
Author :
Publisher : Crown
Total Pages : 466
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781524761790
ISBN-13 : 1524761796
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Basketball by : Jackie MacMullan

Download or read book Basketball written by Jackie MacMullan and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Inspired by a major ESPN film series, this is an extraordinary oral history of basketball—its eye-opening untold history, its profound deeper meaning, its transformative influence on the world—as told through an unprecedented series of candid conversations with the game’s ultimate icons. This is the greatest love story never told. It has passion and heartbreak, triumph and betrayal. It is deeply intimate yet crosses oceans, upends lives and changes nations. This is the true story of basketball. It is the story of a Canadian invention that took over America, and the world. Of a supposed “white man’s sport” that became a way for people of color, women, and immigrants to claim a new place in society. Of a game that demands everything of those who love it, yet gives so much back in return. To tell this story, acclaimed journalists Jackie MacMullan, Rafe Bartholomew and Dan Klores embarked on a groundbreaking mission to interview a staggering lineup of basketball trailblazers. For the first time hundreds of legends, from Kobe, Lebron and Steph Curry to Magic Johnson, Dr. J and Jerry West, spoke movingly about their greatest passion. Former NBA commissioner David Stern and iconic coaches like Phil Jackson and Coach K opened up like never before. Those who shattered glass ceilings, from Bill Russell and Yao Ming to Cheryl Miller and Lisa Leslie, explained what it really took to lay claim to their place in the game. At once a definitive oral history and something far more revelatory and life affirming, Basketball: A Love Story is the defining untold oral history of how basketball came to be, and what it means to those who love it.


Basketball Related Books

Basketball
Language: en
Pages: 466
Authors: Jackie MacMullan
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-15 - Publisher: Crown

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Inspired by a major ESPN film series, this is an extraordinary oral history of basketball—its eye-opening untold history, its pr
Swing
Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: Kwame Alexander
Categories: Young Adult Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-02 - Publisher: Clarion Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this YA novel in verse from bestselling authors Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess (Solo), which Kirkus called “lively, moving, and heartfelt” in a starr
The Crossover
Language: en
Pages: 245
Authors: Kwame Alexander
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

New York Times bestseller ∙ Newbery Medal Winner ∙Coretta Scott King Honor Award ∙2015 YALSA 2015 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults∙ 2015 YALSA Quic
Love Lost Forever
Language: en
Pages: 190
Authors: Mykala
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-11 - Publisher: AuthorHouse

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The book Democratic Imperialism serves as an educated, moderate Muslim's response to the West, particularly to the United States in the ways it attempts to impo
The Book of Basketball
Language: en
Pages: 754
Authors: Bill Simmons
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-07 - Publisher: ESPN

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The NBA according to The Sports Guy—now updated with fresh takes on LeBron, the Celtics, and more! Foreword by Malcom Gladwell �