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…
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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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"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
2. The Jordan Rules
By: None , None
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
A SUPER TEAM...A SUPERSTAR...A SUPER EGO The most gifted athlete ever to play the game, Michael Jor… read more
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3. 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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"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
4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis
By: David Foster Wallace , John Jeremiah Sullivan
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
An instant classic of American sportswriting--the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, "the best … 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. Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess
By: Evan Drellich
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dr… read more
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10. When the Game Was Ours
By: Larry Bird
4.23
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
From the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physic… read more
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11. Zonal Marking: The Making of Modern European Football
By: Michael Cox
4.37
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
Continental football has always cast a spell over the imagination. From the attacking flair of Real… read more
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- nonfiction
12. The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
By: Ben Lindbergh
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Move over, Moneyball -- a cutting-edge look at major league baseball's next revolution: the high-te… read more
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13. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.20
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more
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14. 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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15. Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA
By: Theresa Runstedtler
3.96
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Agains… read more
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16. 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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17. Astroball: The New Way to Win It All
By: Ben Reiter
4.20
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
When Sports Illustrated declared on the cover of a June 2014 issue that the Houston Astros would wi… read more
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- nonfiction
18. Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
By: Jeff Pearlman
4.28
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
The story of the Lakers dynasty from 1996 through 2004, when Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal combi… read more
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19. The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality
By: Mike Sielski
4.07
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
"A compelling origin story of a time that really wasn’t so long ago but through the lens of tragedy… read more
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- nonfiction
- basketball
"Somebody says I can't do something, and I want to go out and do it on purpose and do it in an unbelievable way."-Mike Sielski, The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality
20. Barkley: A Biography
By: Timothy Bella
4.07
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
* A Good Morning America Buzz Book* *A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2022* The definitive biogra… read more
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21. Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original
By: Howard Bryant
4.23
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
“Seldom does a sports biography—especially a page-turner—so comprehensively explain the forces that… read more
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22. Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP
By: Mirin Fader
4.41
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the story of one of the most transcendent players in NBA history–from his early life livin… read more
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23. 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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24. Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution
By: Ryan O'Hanlon
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An in-depth examination of the rise of analytics in soccer and the wild experiments unfolding aroun… read more
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25. 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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26. Bubbleball: Inside the NBA's Fight to Save a Season
By: Ben Golliver
3.79
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A captivating account of the NBA’s strangest season ever, from shutdown to championship, from a pro… read more
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27. 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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28. Hoop Atlas: Mapping the Remarkable Transformation of the Modern NBA
By: Kirk Goldsberry
4.28
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Sprawlball , Kirk Goldsberry returns with a visual feast of a book—equal… read more
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29. 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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30. Spaced Out: How the NBA's Three-Point Revolution Changed Everything You Thought You Knew About Basketball
By: Mike Prada
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A hands-on, illuminating deconstruction of NBA basketball, tracing the tactical evolution of the mo… read more
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31. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more
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