Basketball Biographies
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Wooden : a Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court (97 Edition)
by John Wooden  Publisher Comments Evoking days gone by when coaches were expected as much for their off-court performance as for their success on the court, this unique and intimate work presents the timeless wisdom of legendary basketball coach John Wooden. In honest and telling...
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A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
by John Mcphee Publisher Comments When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. A Sense of Where You Are, McPhee’s first book, is about Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. McPhee delineates for the reader the...
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The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul
by Phil Jackson Publisher Comments For the countless basketball fans who were spellbound by the Los Angeles Lakers' 2003 &2004 high-wire act, this book is a rare and phenomenal treat. In The Last Season, Lakers coach Phil Jackson draws on his trademark honesty and insight to tell the...
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My Personal Best: Life Lessons from an All-American Journey
by John Wooden Publisher Comments NATIONAL BESTSELLER For John Wooden's millions of fans--a heartfelt and revealing self-portrait about the people and events that shaped his life Sports Illustrated declared: "There has never been a finer coach in American sports than John Wooden. Nor a...
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Driven from Within
by Michael Jordan Publisher Comments Michael Jordan is the rare global icon whose celebrity extends beyond his original stage and onto multiple platforms. His relentless determination produced six NBA Championships and some of the most spectacular performances in sports history, while his...
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Driven from Within
by Michael Jordan Publisher Comments Michael Jordan is the rare global icon whose celebrity extends beyond his original stage and onto multiple platforms. His relentless determination produced six NBA Championships and some of the most spectacular performances in sports history, while his...
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Hoop Dreams: True Story of Hardship and Triumph, the
by Ben Joravsky 
Publisher Comments Award-winning journalist Ben Joravsky vividly brings to life all the richness and subtlety of the experiences of Arthur Agee and William Gates, two gifted urban hoopsters determined to make it to the NBA, in this intimate, suspenseful, and heart...
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They Call Me Coach
by John R Wooden Publisher Comments The legendary coach talks about his life, his players, and his winning philosophies in this bestselling autobiography John Wooden's dedication and inspiration made him America's "winningest" coach. His beliefs in hard work and preparedness brought the...
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The Jump: Sebastian Telfair and the High-Stakes Business of High School Ball
by Ian O'Connor Publisher Comments On NBA draft night, June 24, 2004, high school senior Sebastian Telfair awaited his future inside a suite at the Trump International Hotel. One of the most hyped high school players of all time, with a $20 million Adidas deal in hand, Sebastian found...
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The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul
by Phil Jackson and Michael Arkush Publisher Comments One of the most successful coaches in the history of basketball offers his personal account of a season like no other — the extraordinary ride of the 2003–2004 Los Angeles Lakers. Nine-time NBA Champion coach Phil Jackson knows all about...
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More Than a Game
by Phil Jackson Publisher Comments AS THE GAME REVEALS THE PLAYER, SO DOES THIS BOOK REVEAL THE COACH Phil Jackson is the most celebrated coach in basketball today, earning that respect by guiding his teams in Chicago and Los Angeles to an astounding eight NBA championships. The key to...
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The Game of My Life: A True Story of Challenge, Triumph, and Growing Up Autistic
by Jason J Ma Mcelwain Publisher Comments The incredible true story of one high school student's determination to triumph against the challenges of autism-and his opponents on the basketball court... On February 15, 2006, the Greece Athena Trojans high school basketball team took the court for...
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Don't Let the Lipstick Fool You: The Making of a Champion
by Lisa Leslie Synopsis From the basketball legend whose slam dunk made WNBA history comes a candid and inspiring memoir that also takes a gripping, behind-the-scenes look at the cutthroat world of professional sports. (Memoir)...
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Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich
by Mark Kriegel Publisher Comments Pistol is more than the biography of a ballplayer. It's the stuff of classic novels: the story of a boy transformed by his father's dream -- and the cost of that dream. Even as Pete Maravich became Pistol Pete -- a basketball icon for baby boomers -- all...
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They Call Me Coach
by John Wooden Publisher Comments The critically acclaimed, classic autobiography of UCLA basketball's legendary coach "What Knute Rockne was to football, Connie Mack to baseball, and Wilbur and Orville Wright to flying, John Wooden is to basketball." --Los Angeles Times "They Call Me...
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Loose Balls: Easy Money, Hard Fouls, Cheap Laughs, and True Love in the NBA
by Jayson Williams Publisher Comments The first candid report from a land of fragile egos, available women, unexpected tenderness, intramural fistfights, colossal partying, bizarre humor, inconceivable riches, and desperate competition, Loose Balls does for roundball what Ball Four did for...
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Chocolate Thunder: The Uncensored Life and Times of the NBA's Original Showman
by Darryl Dawkins Publisher Comments Dawkins, the first player to go directly from high school to the NBA, received instant fame when he became the first player to smash a backboard. His tell-all account of life in the NBA during the 1970s and '80s is full of spicy anecdotes, ribald humor...
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Let Me Tell You a Story
by Red Auerbach Publisher Comments - Red Auerbach has come across all kinds of characters throughout his years in sports and has opinions to offer and amazing stories to tell about all of them. - A book about a true sports legend by an extraordinarily popular sportswriter will appeal to...
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Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns
by Jack Mccallum Publisher Comments Sports Illustrateds" chief NBA writer offers an insiders view of the Phoenix Suns and takes a season-long look at the NBAs most exciting and controversial team....
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Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior
by Phil Jackson Publisher Comments & nbsp; Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.???Phil Jackson In this thought-provoking memoir, filled with stories about Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Toni Kukoc, and other members of the...
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