Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+6266&No=60 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=567050 The 1971-72 basketball season was one to go down in history. For the Los Angeles Lakers it was a season of records, an incredible championship, and many personal victories - by a team featuring several players bound for the NBA Hall of Fame. For the sport of basketball it was a season of transition, when West Coast style overcame East Coast sophistication. And for the fans, it was simply a season to remember. Charley Rosen brings to life all of the memories, events, and spectacles. Featuring an iconic all-star roster that includes Wilt Chamberlain and Jerry West, The Pivotal Season is an account of some of the greatest names in the game and their contributions to one of the most remarkable seasons in history. This narrative credits the Lakers coach, Bill Sharman, who, though virtually unknown today, was the best basketball coach of his time. Photographs and action-packed narrative portray the pivotal 1971-72 season in this memorable book of sports history, which includes a special foreword by Phil Jackson. Basketball fans will be able to relive this amazing story of despair turned to triumph, when the Los Angeles Lakers won a record thirty-three consecutive games, persevered and defeated their archrival, the New York Knicks, won the championship - and in so doing changed the sport of basketball forever.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=610133 When Melissa King, a transplanted southerner in search of connection, finds herself on the lean, mean streets of Chicago, she turns to her childhood passion for basketball. In her late twenties, King is at a crossroads in her life, and the randomness of the game as it is played on the streets suits her mood. The rules are unwritten, the teams a haphazard collection of players, and unlike anything else around her, the courts feel like home. So wherever there is a game, she gets her ball and goes. From the rough, male-dominated inner-city courts of Chicago, she travels to lazy oceanside pickup games in sunny California and dilapidated gyms in her Bible Belt home state. In a street-smart voice full of understated humor and palpable hope, King chronicles her journey, using the rhythms of the court to riff on the issues of race, class, gender, religion, sexual politics, and love. Ultimately, through the jubilant swish of the net, the brunt of an egregious foul, and the knowing glance of a stranger who says yes, you can be on my team, King discovers in those rare moments on the court the countless things she wants in life but cannot name.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=567048 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=538118 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=530103 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=527660 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=453477 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=295398 All-star center Jayson Williams has written the basketball book everyone has been waiting for: the first candid report from a land of fragile egos, easy sex, unexpected tenderness, hand-breaking fistfights, colossal partying, bizarre humor, and inconceivable riches. No inspirational pieties or chest-thumping boasting, just real insider tales of refs, groupies, coaches, entourages, and all the other clowns and performers in the rarefied circus that is professional basketball. of photos. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=292832 On city playgrounds and in high-school gymnasiums, the search goes on for the next Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant - potential superstars who can bring millions in sales to the athletic shoe companies they endorse. Now an explosive and controversial expose at last reveals the ongoing exploitation of college, high-school, and even junior-high-school players by profit-minded sneaker companies. Written by two of the most knowledgeable journalists in sports, SOLE INFLUENCE takes you into this battle for the hearts, minds, and feet of young athletes - at any price. Along the way, it shows how criminals, including drug dealers and sex offenders, have ended up on a shoe companys payroll. More frightening, this book reveals how corporate money funneled into amateur sports has created black-market professionalism among college and high-school athletes, with promises of fame and fortune that for most players will simply never come true.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=290967 The National Basketball Association is a place where, without ever acknowledging it, white fans and black players enact and quietly explode virtually every racial issue and tension in the culture at large. In Black Planet, David Shields explores how, in a predominantly black sport, white fans - including especially himself - think about and talk about black heroes, black scapegoats, black bodies. During the 1994-95 NBA season, Shields went to the Seattle SuperSonics home games; watched their away games on TV; listened to interviews and call-in shows; talked, or tried to talk, to players, coaches, and agents; attended charity events; corresponded with members of the Sonics newsgroup on the Web. He kept a journal and over the next few years transformed that journal into this book, which is focused sharply on white spectators relationship to black athletes, in particular Shields own identification with Gary Payton, the teams language-besotted point-guard.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=291556 Basketball is a game of spirited rallies and fabulous finishes, truly a game where every second counts, where the very rules of the game have been drawn to help teams mount late charges and come from behind to win. With shot clocks and three-point shots, no lead is safe until the final buzzer has sounded. Drawing from every level of the sport -- high school, college, and the NBA, amateur and pro, mens and womens basketball -- this book will put you in the middle of the fast-paced, heart-stopping action When Seconds Count. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=281946 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=158322 In Playing for Keeps, David Halberstam takes the first full measure of Michael Jordans epic career, one of the great American stories of our time. A narrative of astonishing power and human drama, brimming with revealing anecdotes and penetrating insights, the book chronicles the forces in Jordans life that have shaped him into historys greatest basketball player, and the larger forces that have converged to make him the most famous living human being in the world. We get a rare insiders view of the dynamics between Jordan, the star, and the others who played critical roles in the championship seasons, including the shrewd, thoughtful Phil Jackson, the enigmatic Scottie Pippen, and the curiously shy Dennis Rodman. In addition, we see the bitter divisions between players and management on the Bulls, and the NBAs interior pressures and conflicts as basketball grows during Jordans reign into a phenomenally successful big-time celebrity sport. This book is, as well, about fame in America, the forces that create it and its consequences. Among other things, we see how David Falk and Nike launched the campaign that sold Jordan to the world, abetted by a small Oregon ad agency, Wieden and Kennedy, and a struggling young Brooklyn filmmaker named Spike Lee.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=285657 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=272208 Since 1937, eight national athletic associations have organized 493 national championship tournaments. In addition, in 1904 and then since 1938, nine other organizations have conducted 105 quasi-national championship tournaments. College Basketballs National Championships details every one of these tournaments. They are listed for each sponsoring organization by men and women, by year, by division; and all of the participating teams are listed in order of their final standing in the tournament. The entries for each team include the complete season win-loss record, coachs name, and tournament data such as seed, region, and type of bid. Also included are lists of every national champion by year, by association, and by school - plus a complete summary of results and data for all appearances of every school that ever participated in a national championship tournament.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=147136 While everyone knows about the growth of basketball in high schools and colleges, the story of Indianas role in the development of professional basketball has not been told before. It is a lively story of raucous fans, local heroes, and men who loved the game and were willing to play for nickels. Gould covers the three Indianapolis teams - the Em-Rocs, the Kautskys, and the Olympians - and the Fort Wayne Pistons (later the Detroit Pistons), who dominated professional basketball for a number of years. Setting his story within the context of the times, he also discusses some of the teams that the local heroes competed against, including the famous New York Celtics (the original Celtics) and the gifted Harlem Rens (the first all-black professional team).--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=210650 Photographs of notable basketball players and text about the game are organized to represent the numbers from one to fifty. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=118677 101 Defensive Basketball Drills presents 101 drills that are designed for coaches at any level who are interested in developing defensive-minded teams. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=128614 Best Seat in the House, Spike Lees evocative and compelling basketball memoir, interweaves several journeys over a course of thirty years. The first is professional basketballs metamorphosis from a fringe sport whose championship games would air tape-delayed at 11:30 p.m., after the local news had already given the scores, to become the big-money sports spectacular it is today, filled with outrageously inflated salaries and egos. The other journey is that of Shelton Jackson Lee himself, who has gone from a skinny kid playing ball on the streets of Brooklyn, sneaking into Madison Square Garden to watch his beloved Knicks, to Morehouse College and NYU film school, to being a world-renowned film director and hoops fan. The book charts Spikes artistic journey from his first college film (Super 8), called Last Hustle in Brooklyn, and his gradual move down from the raucous, nosebleed blue seats just below the Gardens rafters, closer and closer to the on-court action until, in the year Malcolm X was released, Spike landed the coveted courtside seats he has today - the best seats in the house. From there, his blue-seat emotions, transplanted to within arms reach of the action, have led to numerous confrontations with refs and opposing players - some of them public, like the notorious Reggie Miller incident - but most never before discussed. Along the way Spike takes readers on entertaining and provocative detours, including a one-on-one with that other film-directing, Brooklyn-born, Garden-inhabiting hoops fan, Woody Allen; reviews of sports movies (Spike has seen them all, and the results arent pretty); an unusually candid and revelatory interview with Michael Jordan; and a stark assessment of the role of African-American athletes both in the big business of sports and in the broader culture.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=30374 Inside look at the Phoenix Suns discussing the personal clashes between players, changing of coaches during the season and the controversial trade of Charles Barkley after the teams dissapointing playoff performance. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=146676 Sacred Hoops is an inside look at the higher wisdom of teamwork from Chicago Bulls head coach Phil Jackson. At the heart of the book is Jacksons philosophy of mindful basketball - and his lifelong quest to bring enlightenment to the competitive world of professional sports. One of the most successful coaches in NBA history, Jackson has developed a new paradigm of leadership based on Eastern and Native American principles. His approach flies in the face of the egoistic, winner-take-all attitude that has changed the face of American sports. Rather than winning through intimidation, Jackson - who describes himself as a Zen Christian - stresses awareness, compassion, and, most of all, selfless team play. Born in Deer Lodge, Montana, Jackson is the son of Pentecostal ministers. He studied psychology, philosophy, and religion at the University of North Dakota and became part of the legendary New York Knicks of the early 1970s. Toward the end of his playing career he discovered Zen and began meditating. Being aware, he says, is more important than being smart. In this thought-provoking memoir, filled with stories about Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Toni Kukoe, and other members of the Bulls, Jackson reveals how he directs his players to act with a clear mind - not thinking, just doing; to respect the enemy and be aggressive without anger or violence; to live in the moment and stay calmly focused in the midst of chaos, so that the me becomes the servant of the we.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=108980 To Arthur Agee and William Gates, basketball means literally everything. Their only escape from the grim streets of Chicagos West Side is onto the neighborhood courts, where they and their friends dream of playing in the NBA. For most its just a forlorn hope, but Arthur and William are different: barely out of grade school, they already display the raw potential that just might make their dreams come true. Hoop Dreams began as a documentary film that tracked these two young men for almost five years as they struggled to turn their playground skills into the kind of basketball mastery that could earn them college scholarships - and maybe even a place in the pros. Critics from coast to coast hailed the film as one of the finest documentaries ever made, both a superb portrait of two gifted teenagers working their way through the tough, often cruel basketball machine, and a searing look at the harsh realities of inner-city life. In this remarkable book, award-winning journalist Ben Joravsky chronicles Arthur and Williams battle to reach the top and tells the story that could not be told on film. His vivid prose evokes the experience of being plucked from the projects and offered a glittering future. He captures not only the moments of basketball glory at suburban St. Joseph High School, which produced superstar Isiah Thomas, but also the loneliness of being poor and black in an affluent, mostly white school and the overwhelming pressure to perform both on the court and in the classroom.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=110309 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=107734 In the brave new world of the NBA, players are marketed like cartoon characters and image is all: pro basketball has become the most hyped product on the planet. Amid the relentless selling of the NBA, its become increasingly hard to get close to the game, and more importantly, to the human beings who live and breathe hoops: the coaches and players. Thats what Full Court Pressure - a detailed, hilarious, poignant look at the Seattle Sonics - accomplishes. Curt Sampson spent the 1993-94 season with the Sonics on and off the court. He casts a jaded and very funny eye at the NBA promotion machine, and he gives the true fan all the Xs and Os they want.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=164183 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=235216 Hes the 1995 NBA Most Valuable Player, a nine-time NBA All Star, and an Olympic gold medal winner. Hes the most popular player in basketball, and he may be the most quotable figure in sports history. Funny, irreverent, and ultimately insightful, Charles Barkley tells it like it is in Barkleyland, the territory the New York Times identifies as somewhere between siege and war. You may not want to live there, but with Sir Charles as your guide, it really is a great place to visit. Sir Charles is the first-ever complete collection of the solicited and unsolicited pronouncements of the undisputed King of Quotes. Read what Charles has to say about: who is better - Charles Barkley or Michael Jordan; Godzilla and Japan; the quality of Larry Birds defensive skills; bald people with beards; the fans around the NBA; and the future of the NBA. Plus, see what the players, GMs, coaches, TV personalities, and sportswriters have to say about him. Whether insightful or incendiary, Charles Barkleys words fill the sports pages of every city in the nation. And whether you like what you hear or not, you can bet on one thing - youre going to hear it.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=156308 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=151332 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=157223 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=75886 It ought to be just a game, but basketball on the playgrounds of Coney Island is much more than that - for many young men it represents their only hope of escape from a life of crime, poverty, and despair. It is their last shot. This is the story of a small group of high school boys who have given their young lives to basketball, as neighborhood stars and as team members of the Abraham Lincoln High School Railsplitters, consistently one of the best teams in New York. They dream of a college scholarship and escape from the neighborhood. What they have going for them is athletic talent, grace, and years of dedication. But working against them are an educational system that has woefully failed them and family circumstances that are often desperate.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=91801 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=208867 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=143758 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=141764 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=209859 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=87545 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=28133 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=69549 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=67000 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=92432 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=228289 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704082 Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author, tells for the first time her story of victory and resilience, as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimers disease.