The World of Basketball Books
I think I’ve mentioned several times in this blog that I got into basketball through the NBA and don’t (yet) know anything about college basketball. To broaden my horizons, I bought a book that focuses on college basketball and not the pro level. I came across Don’t Put Me In, Coach by Mark Titus rather … Read more
The Big NBA Quiz Book is now also available as a Kindle e-book.The e-book costs $3.99. Due to the elimination of printing costs, e-books are generally cheaper than printed books. The questions are the same as in the printed version. However, there are a few minor changes here. Because of the limited space, there are … Read more
The most recent NBA Book I read was the biography of Tyrone “Muggsy” Bogues. This book was particularly close to my heart, as I discovered the NBA as a child in the mid/late 90s and watched basketball for the first time (after Michael Jordan‘s first comeback). And let’s be honest: if you watched the NBA … Read more
After 7 Seconds or Less and Dream Team, Golden Days is the third book by the author Jack McCallum that I’m reviewing on this blog. Since I really enjoyed the other two books and included them in my personal top 10 of the best NBA books, I didn’t have to think twice about reading this … Read more
Today there is no review of a good book about the NBA. Instead, I’m doing some shameless self-promotion. Sorry about that. The Big NBA Quiz Book is of course not a book in the sense in which I usually review it here. There is no big story with a lot of text, but the story … Read more
Go up for Glory is the first Bill Russell book that I’m writing about in this blog. It is more or less a typical autobiography. What’s special is that Russell did not write the book at the end of his life or at least after his career. It was first published in 1966 and as … Read more
There are some terms in basketball that are firmly associated with a particular event. For example, The Shot describes Michael Jordan‘s decisive shot against the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round of the 1989 playoffs. Or LeBron James’ famous block against Andre Iguodala in Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals is referred to as … Read more
Basketball fans with an interest in history will immediately know from the title what a book called “Showtime” is about. For the rest, the subtitle of the book leaves no questions unanswered. It reads “Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s”. Showtime was the template for the HBO series Winning … Read more
Today’s blog article is once again about the history of the NBA. More specifically, one of the most famous and most discussed events in NBA history, the 1984 draft. This is often referred to as the best draft of all time and Filip Bondy took a look behind the scenes with “Tip Off: How the … Read more
Having already presented a few books in this blog about more historical events, here is book that deals with the more recent past. The Sixth Man is the autobiography of Andre Iguodala, who only ended his active career in 2023. However, the book was published in 2019, so before Iguodala’s last title with the Warriors … Read more