The Science of Basketball
The Science of Basketball

Author: Alexandru Radu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-03

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1351789716

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The Science of Basketball is the only book to examine the scientific principles underpinning preparation and performance in basketball, applied to both individual and team contexts. Drawing on the very latest scientific evidence, and including contributions from leading international coaches and scientists involved in the sport, the book explores every aspect of physical and mental preparation and performance, including: strength and conditioning, and training strategies physiological aspects of performance nutrition and supplementation psychological preparation skill acquisition biomechanical aspects of performance performance analysis injury epidemiology, prevention and rehabilitation coach education Incorporating case studies at the end of each chapter to demonstrate how scientific principles can be applied to practice, the book bridges the gap between theory and applied practice in basketball better than any other. It is essential reading for any student, researcher, sport scientist, coach, physiotherapist or clinician with an interest in the game, and illuminative supplementary reading for students of sport science and sports coaching.

Journals of a Wannabe Basketball Player
Journals of a Wannabe Basketball Player

Author: Lovely Whitmore

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-01-02

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 1105409872

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9 year old Kayla loves the sport of basketball, it's all she dreams about is becoming a WNBA player. While her twin sister Kela is better at everything basketball is the one thing that Kayla feels is her "thing". Everyday she faces ridicule from her peers, coaches, and even her friends. If she's gonna play basketball Kayla must overcome some of her most inner secret obstacles. Kayla was given a journal as a birthday present on her 9th birthday. It is unique in that it's the only gift she received that her twin sister Kela did not get too. She uses this journal to document her adventures and daily life. All of her most inner secrets are recorded in this journal. Sit back and see the world through the eyes of this ambitious 9 year old as she quickly learns that the real world is full of let downs and disappointments.

The National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association

Author: Frank P. Jozsa

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9814313904

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The National Basketball Association (NBA) is widely recognized as an entertaining and innovative league whose teams play regular season and postseason games in packed arenas at home and away sites in the United States and Canada. This book discusses the development, growth, and success of the 61-year-old NBA from a business perspective. Covering the late 1940s to 2009, it focuses on the league's expansions and mergers, team territories and relocations, franchise organizations and operations, basketball arenas and markets, and NBA domestic and international affairs. Readers will gain an insight into when, how, and why the NBA emerged, reformed, and gradually matured to become one of the world's most dominant, prosperous, and popular professional sports organizations today.

The National Basketball League
The National Basketball League

Author: Murry R. Nelson

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2009-06-08

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0786453613

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The NBA has gained worldwide popularity with its high-flying stars and slam-dunking giants, but the early professional hoops game was played below the rim. This book provides the first history of the National Basketball League, which held court from the mid-1930s until its merger with the Basketball Association of America in 1949. Originally formed in Akron and Indianapolis, the league operated mainly in the Midwest but extended as far east as Rochester and Syracuse and west to Denver, building major franchises with hometown loyalties. Most of its stars were college graduates, a major change from previous professional leagues, and it was the first modern major professional league to integrate. Features include photographs, maps of league franchises, and tables of team standings, MVPs, and scoring leaders.

Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Kentucky Basketball
Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Kentucky Basketball

Author: James Duane Bolin

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2019-03-15

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0813177235

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Known as the "Man in the Brown Suit" and the "Baron of the Bluegrass," Adolph Rupp (1901–1977) is a towering figure in the history of college athletics. In Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Kentucky Basketball, historian James Duane Bolin goes beyond the wins and losses to present the fullest account of Rupp's life to date based on more than one-hundred interviews with Rupp, his assistant coaches, former players, University of Kentucky presidents and faculty members, and his admirers and critics, as well as court transcripts, newspaper accounts, and other archival materials. His teams won four NCAA championships (1948, 1949, 1951, and 1958), the 1946 National Invitation Tournament title, and twenty-seven Southeastern Conference regular season titles. Rupp's influence on the game of college basketball and his impact on Kentucky culture are both much broader than his impressive record on the court. Bolin covers Rupp's early years—from his rural upbringing in a German Mennonite family in Halstead, Kansas, through his undergraduate years at the University of Kansas playing on teams coached by Phog Allen and taking classes with James Naismith, the inventor of basketball—to his success at Kentucky. This revealing portrait of a pivotal figure in American sports also exposes how college basketball changed, for better or worse, in the twentieth century.

A Study on the Co-Relation of Basketball Playing Ability with Motor Fitness and Health Related Fitness of Female Basketball Players
A Study on the Co-Relation of Basketball Playing Ability with Motor Fitness and Health Related Fitness of Female Basketball Players

Author: Dr. Vennamaneni Deepika & Prof. L. B. Laxmikanth Rathod

Publisher: Ashok Yakkaldevi

Published: 2022-02-04

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 1716051029

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Sports in the present day have become extremely competitive as the previous records are being broken whenever there is competition. It is not mere the participation or few days of practice that brings an individual victory, but it is the continuous hard work of training right from the childhood, and a strong Anthropometry variables influences the performance. Today’s sports person faces unique challenges. The standards are higher; the competition is tougher, the stakes are greater and the attention overwhelming in these days. Coaches’, physical educationists and sports scientists have always expressed a great need to know more about those Anthropometry variables, which are helpful in improving the motor skill of the players. Today’s world is a world of competition, the rivalry to reach top and excel each other is intense. That every aspect that contributes for the excellence is carefully looked into and one of such aspects is the selection of the right person for the right event in sports and games. Normally the choice of selection is given to a player or the athletes. The players without knowing their inherent potential make wrong choices because of their wrong selection, and hence the individual concerned is not able to reach the top of the ladder (Gangopadhyay, 1993). Man, by nature, is highly competitive and in pursuit of high performance; He/she has always been striving to jump higher and farther, to run faster and to demonstrate greater strength and skill. Physical fitness places emphasis on more and more activity (Uppal, 1992).

Midnight Basketball
Midnight Basketball

Author: Douglas Hartmann

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-07-28

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 022637498X

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Sport-based intervention programs designed to divert poor minority youth from gangs and crime got their start with the Midnight Basketball initiatives of the late 1980s. Hartmann explains the mystery of why a basketball- based program became popular as a solution to problems of crime and poverty in dozens of American cities. In part, then, this book is a history, but also a cultural analysis to explain the prominence of these programs at first (and then so controversial later on), and how they were expanded upon in the years that followed. In fact, it was in Chicagohome of Michael Jordan and the Bullsthat Midnight Basketball first achieved prominence. Under the direction of former Congressman Jack Kemp and the Chicago Housing Authority, two leagues were organized, in Rockwell Gardens and the Henry Horner Homes. To understand why the program caught on, Hartmann explores the policy transformations of the period (such as the new penology and neoliberal paternalism), and, at length, he gets into the cultural tensions and institutional realities that shaped this program and the entire field of sport-based social policy. In the end, Midnight Basketball, Race, and Neoliberal Social Policy provides a one-of-a-kind view of the culture of sport and race in America, and neoliberal policy broadly conceived."

How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius
How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius

Author: Nick Greene

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2021-03-02

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1683359208

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A brilliant, entertaining deconstruction of basketball, drawing on the expertise of board-game creators, magicians, therapists, and more Basketball is the second-most popular sport in the world—an insanely complicated game built on a combination of athleticism, craftiness, rules, intangibles, and superstardom. However, while it’s enjoyable to watch, the real reason it works is because it’s a game of culture, art, and all the things that make us human. How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius deconstructs the sport from top to bottom and then puts it back together again, detailing its intricacies through reporting and dozens of interviews with experts. These experts, however, are a diverse group: wine critics weighing in on LeBron’s ability to delegate on the fly, magicians analyzing Chris Paul’s mystifying dribbling techniques, cartographers breaking down Steph Curry’s deadeye three-point shooting. Every chapter treats basketball to a multi-disciplined study that adventures far beyond the lines of the court, examining key elements of the sport from some surprising and revealing angles. There’s a reason it has conquered the world, and every game is a chance to learn about pop culture, fashion, history, science, art, and anything else that bounces our way.