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Asphalt Gods
By: MALLOZZI, VINCENT M.
Published by: Doubleday Publishing
The real basketball deal–the inside story of Harlem’s legendary tournament and the pros and playground legends who have made it world famous. Earl “The Goat” Manigault. Herman “Helicopter” Knowings. Joe “The Destroyer” Hammond.
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Price: $9.95
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Bird Watching
By: Bird, Larry; MacMullan, Jackie
Published by: Time Warner
Talent, drive, smarts, and an absolutely one-of-a-kind personality - that is the essence of basketball legend Larry Bird. Now Bird tells the story of his playing and coaching days that the headlines would only hint at. Starting with the day he announced his retirement as a member of the Boston Celtics ('one of the happiest days of my life'), looking back to his college career, and going behind the scenes as head coach of the Indiana Pacers, Bird talks hoops and talks life, strategy and players, victories and defeats.
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Price: $7.99
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Bob Knight
By: Delsohn, Steve; Heisler, Mark
Published by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Brilliant, intimidating, charming, or profane, Coach Bob Knight is an enduring contradiction who has long fascinated and repelled basketball fans, for whom he has provided as much to dislike as to respect. Bob Knight: The Unauthorized Biography is the first comprehensive biography of Knight, one of the most successful and controversial coaches in the history of American sports. Detailing the entire scope of Knight's playing and coaching career through extensive interviews -- including many with people who have never gone on record about him before -- authors Steve Delsohn and Mark Heisler give a candid yet balanced account of the man who will likely end up as the all-time winningest coach in college basketball.
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Price: $11.99
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Chamique: On Family, Focus, and Basketball
By: Holdsclaw, Chamique; Frey, Jennifer
Published by: SCRIBNER
She has been called the best woman basketball player ever, the player with the power to decide the direction of the WNBA. But the popularity of twenty-three-year-old Chamique Holdsclaw is rooted not only in her basketball status but also in her remarkable and inspiring life. Here, Chamique takes us on her journey, revealing her unstable and anxiety-ridden childhood with her parents and the escape she ultimately found by moving to her grandmother's housing project, where she discovered the restorative comforts of structure, focus, and basketball.
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Chuck Taylor, All Star
By: Aamidor, Abraham
Published by: Indiana University Press
Chuck Taylor is one of the most famous names in basketball history that no one knows anything about. His name is synonymous with the Converse tennis shoes ("Chucks") that bear his name. In 2001, while researching a story on the bankruptcy of Converse, Inc., the oldest continuous sport shoe manufacturer in America, newspaper reporter Abraham Aamidor discovered that little was truly known about the company's famous personality, and it sparked an interest to know more. The result is the first-ever biography of Taylor.
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Price: $17.55
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A Coach's Life: My Forty Years in College Basketball
By: Smith, Dean E.; Kilgo, John; Jenkins, Sally
Published by: Random House Publishing Group
Legendary University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith tells the full story of his fabled career, and shares the life lessons taught and learned over forty years of unparalleled success as a coach and mentor. For almost forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina men's basketball program with unsurpassed success- on the court and in shaping young men's lives.
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Coaching Basketball For Dummies
By: The National Alliance For Youth Sports
Published by: For Dummies
The hands-on guide to coaching children on the court. Over 1.7 million parents and other adults volunteer to coach children's sports, and many are not completely familiar with the sport they're coaching. Coaching Basketball For Dummies offers both new and experienced coaches advice on understanding the fine points of the rules, teaching basketball skills to different age groups, instilling good sportsmanship in players and fans, and using creative, fun drills to reinforce basketball fundamentals. The National Alliance For Youth Sports is America's leading advocate for positive and safe sports for children. Greg Bach (West Palm Beach, FL) is the Director of Communications for the Alliance.
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Price: $19.99
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Coaching High School Basketball
By: Kuchar, Bill
Published by: McGraw-Hill
From a 40-year veteran, the only book available devoted to coaching high school basketball. In Coaching High School Basketball , Hall of Famer Bill Kuchar presents an indispensable instruction manual for experienced and rookie coaches alike. A combination of classic tactics and new, cutting-edge strategies, this one-of-a-kind handbook provides easyto- read diagrams and instructions, plus dozens of practice drills to reinforce fundamentals and teach innovative moves. Readers will learn how to:.:.; Master Kuchar's ''double motion offense''.; Locate, protect, and infiltrate zones.; Defend against the fast break.; Use last-second plays for when the game is on the line.; Make the most of out-of-bounds plays.; Scout and evaluate junior high school talent.; Get college coaches to scout their games.
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Price: $18.95
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Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn
By: Colton, Larry
Published by: Time Warner
In Native American tradition, a warrior gained honor and glory by 'counting coup': touching his enemy in battle and living to tell the tale. This is a modern story of... Counting Coup In this extraordinary work of journalism, Larry Colton journeys into the world of Montana's Crow Indians and follows the struggles of a talented, moody, charismatic young woman named Sharon LaForge, a gifted basketball player and a descendant of one of George Armstrong Custer's Indian scouts. But Counting Coup is far more than just a sports story or a portrait of youth. It is a sobering expose of a part of our society long since cut out of the American dream.
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