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2) The Big East: inside the most entertaining and influential conference in college basketball history
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The compulsively readable, definitive account of the greatest era of the most influential league in college basketball history, infused with the raucous spirit and roaring voices of the league's legendary coaches and players. There has never been, nor will there ever be, another league quite like the Big East. Five Big East schools have won national college basketball titles, and five coaches are enshrined in the Hall of Fame. Eight players have...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Documents the fierce 1980s rivalry among the coaching legends behind the University of North Carolina, Duke University, and North Carolina State, detailing the covert recruiting wars that shaped each team and the national pressure that complicated their leadership methods.
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Based on veterans' first-hand accounts, the author shares paralyzed WWII veterans' experiences pioneering the sport of wheelchair basketball, as well as their post-war life experiences and their impact on the disability rights movement.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, in a working-class corner of the Bronx, where a driven coach inspires his teams to win games and championship--and learn Russian history and graduate and go on to college"--From publisher's description.
11) Milwaukee Bucks
Author
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Learn about the key players and big wins that have made the Milwaukee Bucks one of the most exciting teams in the NBA. Readers will get a glimpse into the team's history, its home court, its fans, and the team's most memorable moments.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Today, the NBA is around 74% Black but, when basketball first started to catch on, it wasn't easy for Black people to play. They couldn't enter segregated YMCAs or attend privileged colleges. So Black Americans made their own spaces, playing in dance halls before the dancing started, and eventually forming teams called the Black Fives. More than Just a Game celebrates the history of basketball from a Black perspective, revealing how it changed Black...
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
People in nearly every country on Earth love the high-scoring, fast-paced thrills of basketball. Readers will find out what they need to get started playing this action-packed game and how they can improve their skills. They will also discover how basketball was first invented, how it grew to become a global sensation, and how its greatest players have changed the way the game is played .
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York's City College was a tuition-free, merit-based college in Harlem known far more for its intellectual achievements and political radicalism than its athletic prowess. In 1949-1950 every single member of the City College Beavers was either Jewish or African American. Under the guidance of the legendary former player Nat Holman, this unheralded group of city kids would stun the basketball world by becoming the only team in history to win the...
Publisher
Triumph Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From the editors of Sports Illustrated Kids comes The Big Book of Who: Basketball, a collection of basketball's brightest stars, past and present. Profiles, facts and stats will bring the best players in basketball history to life with all of the classic touches that Sports Illustrated Kids is famous for--terrific, age-appropriate writing and exciting sports photography. Court greats from LeBron James to Michael Jordan, Candace Parker to Ja Morant,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A lively and colorful account of the 1969 NBA Finals--one of the greatest upsets in basketball history--through the eyes of future sports writing legend Leigh Montville, who was covering the coast-to-coast event as a brand-new twenty-four-year-old reporter for The Boston Globe"--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Few individuals have had a career as storied, and improbable, as Steve Kerr. He has won eight NBA titles five as a player and three as a coach for three different franchises. He played alongside the best players of a generation, from Michael Jordan to Shaquille O Neal to Tim Duncan, and learned the craft of basketball under four legendary coaches. He was an integral part of two famed NBA dynasties. Perhaps no other figure in basketball history has...
Author
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Strong Inside is the dramatic, untold story of Perry Wallace, a brilliant student and talented athlete who became the first African-American basketball player in the SEC at Vanderbilt University during the tumultuous late 1960s. The fast-paced, richly detailed biography places Wallace's struggles and ultimate success into the larger contexts of civil rights and race relations in the South"--
Author
Series
Legends volume 3
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"From Magic Johnson to Michael Jordan to LeBron James to Steph Curry, ESPN's Howard Bryant presents the best from the hardwood--a collection of NBA champions and superstars for young sports fans! Fast-paced, adrenaline-filled, and brimming with out-of-this-world athleticism, basketball has won the hearts of fans all across America--yet it is particularly popular among kids and teens. Giants of the game like Steph Curry, LeBron, and Michael Jordan...
Author
Publisher
Midway, An Agate Imprint
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
""Set against a backdrop of social change during the 1970s, State is a compelling first-person account of what it was like to live through both traditional gender discrimination in sports and the joy of the very first days of equality --or at least the closest that one high school girls' basketball team ever came to it. In 1975, freshman Melissa Isaacson-- along with a group of other girls who d spent summers with their noses pressed against the fences...
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