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"They were the Beatles of basketball, the Mercury Seven in sneakers. In Dream Team, acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men's Basketball Team that captivated the world, kindled the hoop dreams of countless children around the planet, and remade the NBA into a global sensation. As a senior staff writer for Sports Illustrated, McCallum enjoyed a courtside seat...
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[2014]
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286 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 34 cm
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English
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"Who is the greatest center of all time? How about the most dominant point guard? What's the best game ever? SI's team of experts once and for all settles the questions pro basketball fans have been debating since the first net was hung"--Dust jacket.
7) The back roads to March: the unsung, unheralded, and unknown heroes of a college basketball season
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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xii, 416 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"John Feinstein has already taken readers into the inner circles of top college basketball programs in The Legends Club. This time, Feinstein pulls back the curtain on college basketball's lesser-known Cinderella stories -- the smaller programs who no one expects to win, who have no chance of attracting the most coveted high school recruits, who rarely send their players on to the NBA. Feinstein follows a handful of players, coaches, and schools who...
Pub. Date
[2023]
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215 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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English
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"Through 100 evocative, often stunning photographs, as well as the stories that accompany them, Sports Illustrated visits the great arc of basketball history. Featuring historical coverage and vivid photography covering the men's, women's, and college games, basketball's rich and remarkable history is here. Unforgettable events live in a continuum with stirring photos of the game's most beloved and largest personalities such as Michael Jordan, LeBron...
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2021.
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32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"From the Minnesota Lynx to the Phoenix Mercury, which women's basketball team is the greatest? Follow along in this fun and informational ranking to see which team is number one"--
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[2022]
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470 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
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English
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"African Americans were making moves in basketball generations before the rise of the NBA. Their pioneering efforts helped popularize the sport in big cities and small towns alike and shaped the game we know and love today. From the invention of the game in 1891 to the racial integration of all-White professional leagues int he 1950s, dozens of teams -- then often called "fives" -- of African American players were founded and flourished. This was...
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2019.
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English
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"The true story of the birth of Olympic basketball at the 1936 Summer Games in Hitler's Germany"--
July 1936. Thousands of people cheered as the U.S. Olympic teams boarded the S.S. Manhattan, bound for Berlin. Among the athletes were the 14 players representing the first-ever U.S. Olympic basketball team. In Germany, Jewish people and political opponents of the Nazis were the targets of vicious mistreatment, but international visitors wouldn't see...
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[2017]
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1 videodisc (254 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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There are rivalries, and then there is the Boston Celtics vs. the Los Angeles Lakers. This critically-acclaimed film not only gets to the heart of the greatest tug-of-war in NBA history, but also shows how their three riveting Finals in four years in the 1980s fueled the popularity of the NBA. Director Jim Podhoretz presents a fabulous cast of characters who would change the NBA and open America's collective mind.
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2021.
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vii, 326 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"In MIRACLES ON THE HARDWOOD, author John Gasaway traces the rise of Catholic college basketball - from its early days (Villanova made an appearance in the Final Four in the first NCAA tournament in 1939) to the dominance of the San Franciso Dons in the 1950s and the ascendance of powerhouses Georgetown, Villanova, and Gonzaga-through their decades-long rivalries and championship games. Featuring interviews with notable coaches, players, alums, and...
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