14 Top nonfiction books like Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA by Kirk Goldsberry

Cover of Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA by Kirk Goldsberry

Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA

By: Kirk Goldsberry

4.10

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the leading expert in the exploding field of basketball analytics, a stunning infographic deco…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA by Kirk Goldsberry , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy by Bill Simmons

1. The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy

By: Bill Simmons

4.20

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to wri… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
  • unfinished
"But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper."

-Bill Simmons, The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy

"If you don't agree with me, I have two words for you: shut the fuck up."

-Bill Simmons, The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy

Cover of The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed by Shea Serrano

2. The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed

By: Shea Serrano

4.39

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The Rap Year Book takes readers on a journey that begins in 1979, widely regarded as the moment rap… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I want to marry his smile, and if his smile is already married to someone else, then I want to marry his eyebrows and eyes. They're remarkable. Nobody's ever made better use of his or her eyes or eye…"

-Shea Serrano, The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed

"A fast note about Ice-T's autobiography: There's a section where he tells a story about hanging out with Flavor Flav that involves going to Red Lobster in a Ferrari. I suspect the phrase "going to Re…"

-Shea Serrano, The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed

3. Boys Among Men: How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution

By: Jonathan Abrams

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, never-before-told story of the prep-to-pro generation, those basketball prodigies w… read more

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4. Moneyball

By: Michael Lewis

4.26

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
"Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,"

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

"Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]"

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

"That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different."

-Michael Lewis, Moneyball

5. Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated

By: Shea Serrano , Reggie Miller , Arturo Torres

3.11

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

#1 New York Timesbestseller Who is the greatest dunker of all time? Which version of the Michael Jo… read more

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6. The Breaks of the Game

By: David Halberstam

3.73

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Among the best books ever written on professional basketball." The Philadelphia Inquirer David Hal… read more

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7. Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s

By: Jeff Pearlman

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

TheNew York Timesbestselling author of Sweetnessdelivers the first all-encompassing account of the … read more

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8. The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team

By: Ben Lindbergh , Sam Miller

3.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball te… read more

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9. Betaball: How Silicon Valley and Science Built One of the Greatest Basketball Teams in History

By: None

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Moneyballmeets The City Gamein this compelling look at how the NBA champion Golden State Warriors e… read more

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10. Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association

By: Terry Pluto

4.45

Format: 864 pages, Paperback

The American Basketball Association (1967-1976) gave birth to Julius Erving, Moses Malone, Bob Cost… read more

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11. When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

By: Rich Cohen

3.90

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

The gritty, no-holds-barred account of the 1987 NBA season, a thrilling year of fierce battles and … read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
Cover of Tanking to the Top: The Philadelphia 76ers and the Most Audacious Process in the History of Professional Sports by Yaron Weitzman

12. Tanking to the Top: The Philadelphia 76ers and the Most Audacious Process in the History of Professional Sports

By: Yaron Weitzman

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

How the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers trusted The Process -- a bold plan to get to first by becoming the… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
Cover of Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Chris  Herring

13. Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks

By: Chris Herring

4.30

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive history of the 1990s New York Knicks, illustrat… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
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14. Movies (And Other Things)

By: Shea Serrano

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Shea Serrano is back, and his new book, Movies (And Other Things), combines the fury of a John Wick… read more

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  • nonfiction
"My favorite thing is to imagine Elle meeting up with some of her friends a few weeks after her fight with Beatrix and someone asking her what happened to her one good eye and Elle saying that it was …"

-Shea Serrano, Movies (And Other Things)

Cover of Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA by Kirk Goldsberry

15. Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA

By: Kirk Goldsberry

4.10

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the leading expert in the exploding field of basketball analytics, a stunning infographic deco… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • basketball
  • unfinished
Cover of How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius: What Game Designers, Economists, Ballet Choreographers, and Theoretical Astrophysicists Reveal About the Greatest Game on Earth by Nick  Greene

16. How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius: What Game Designers, Economists, Ballet Choreographers, and Theoretical Astrophysicists Reveal About the Greatest Game on Earth

By: Nick Greene

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, entertaining deconstruction of basketball, drawing on the expertise of board-game crea… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
Cover of Basketball: A Love Story by Jackie MacMullan

17. Basketball: A Love Story

By: Jackie MacMullan

4.18

Format: None pages, Audio CD

A sweeping and revelatory history of basketball, drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews with … read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • basketball
Cover of Hip-Hop (And Other Things) by Shea Serrano

18. Hip-Hop (And Other Things)

By: Shea Serrano

4.32

Format: None pages, Audiobook

HIP-HOP (AND OTHER THINGS) is the third book in the (And Other Things) series. The first two—Basket… read more

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Cover of The Midrange Theory by Seth Partnow

19. The Midrange Theory

By: Seth Partnow

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

At its core, the goal of any basketball team is relatively take and make good shots while preventi… read more

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  • basketball
Cover of Basketball on Paper: Rules and Tools for Performance Analysis by Dean Oliver

20. Basketball on Paper: Rules and Tools for Performance Analysis

By: Dean Oliver

4.06

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

At the risk of succumbing to hyperbole, Basketball on Paper is a revolutionary strike for statistic… read more

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21. Thinking Basketball

By: Ben Taylor

4.20

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Are top scorers really the most valuable players? Are games decided in the final few minutes? Does … read more

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4.20

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4.26

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Rich Cohen

3.90

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