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Paperback The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy Book

ISBN: 0345520106

ISBN13: 9780345520104

The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy

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Book Overview

#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 Journal

In The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons opens--and then closes, once and for all--every major NBA debate, 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. 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.

Customer Reviews

6 customer ratings | 4 reviews

Rated 5 stars
I'm A Hoops Junkie And I LOVE This Book!

This is the best of the many books that I have read on basketball, not because it is full of statistics (it is), but because of the anecdotes and the feel of it. It's like jazz musicians can listen to someone for a few seconds and know whether or not they can really PLAY, Bill Simmons bases many of his comparisons not on the numbers but on a player's game. I've been playing ball for 40 years now (yeah, I still lace 'em up...

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Rated 5 stars
Best sports book I have ever read

I learned so much about the history of basketball from this book. Its a thick book but a very quick read due to the amount of interesting information. The book is also has a great deal of Bill Simmon's unique. He has the best analogies!!

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Rated 5 stars
Informative, hilarious and completely original

I am a definite basketball and NBA junkie and love the columns by ESPN writer Bill Simmons, so when I found out his new book on the topic of basketball was coming out this fall, I had to put in a preorder this summer to get my copy. Released the same day as the beginning of the NBA season, I finished it in two days and want to read through it again just to make sure I didn't miss anything. This book is jam packed, with over...

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Rated 5 stars
Fantastic read, absurd amount of information

I need to preface this by saying that I've been reading Bill Simmons for over 8 years now, before the fame, before the podcasts and almost frightening fan following.I've seen him mature from the old Boston Sports Guy to this all-media presence now, and in the process, his writing has greatly improved. The culmination of such an improvement is this wonderful book, "The Book of Basketball". I managed to get an early copy of...

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