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Author: K.C. Kelley
Publisher: Lerner Publications TM
Published: 2024-08-01
Total Pages: 35
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTogether, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Tim Duncan have six NBA championships and four NBA MVP awards. But is one basketball superstar better than the other? Relive their greatest moments and make your choice. Who will your winner be?
Author: K.C. Kelley
Publisher: Lerner Publications TM
Published: 2024-08-01
Total Pages: 35
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGolf stars are judged by their performances in the biggest events. That’s why Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus are the greatest men’s golfers ever. Compare their careers from the Masters Tournament to the US Open. Then pick your winner!
Author: Jim Gigliotti
Publisher: Lerner Publications TM
Published: 2024-08-01
Total Pages: 35
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJustin Jefferson and Randy Moss are pass-catching superstars. NFL fans love their highlight-reel touchdowns. Moss’s incredible career put him in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and Jefferson is catching up fast. Read about their careers and choose your winner!
Author: Brian Aldridge
Publisher: Classic Sports Journal
Published: 2023-11-24
Total Pages: 147
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf the NBA was not all that popular in 1966 - now look at it! How did the NBA get from 9 teams (1965-66) to the current 30? Answer: legends, stars, mergers, a strong commissioner, timing, the 1992 Summer Olympics and an influx of foreign players. It's all here! Check this out: rule changes, league news, trades, trends, lists of rookies, noteworthy season and playoff games, records, scandals, scoring leaders, rebounding leaders, year-end award winners, and championship results.
Author: Sean McCollum
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 1543506208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBasketball is a game of makes and misses, dunks and doinks, wins and losses. Check out the very best and worst that basketball has to offer with Basketball's Best and Worst.
Author: Brian Aldridge
Publisher: Classic Sports Journal
Published: 2022-06-20
Total Pages: 251
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1984, the Bulls were entering their 19th year as a franchise when they signed Michael Jeffrey Jordan to a contract. Lest anyone forget, the pre-Jordan Bulls sported some very good teams that included some very good players like Guy Rodgers, Bob Love, Chet Walker, Tom Boerwinkle, Jerry Sloan, Norm Van Lier, and Artis Gilmore. Their play brought winning seasons, plenty of loud excitement and hope at the Stadium, but alas none of those teams reached the Finals. By the time His Airness took the floor, the Bulls hadn't seen the playoffs in 3 years and the 1983-84 version lost twice as many games as they won. Jordan brought the team respect, but it took a total of 6 seasons, a coaching change, and a shrewd GM to make great draft choices and add role players for the club to hoist the hardware and raise the Bulls' first championship banner. This was the first of 6 (two three-peats). The heroes were many: Scottie Pippen, Horace Grant, John Paxson, Bill Cartwright, Steve Kerr, Dennis Rodman, Ron Harper, and Toni Kukoc. And Jordan? The 5X NBA MVP was voted Finals MVP all 6 times. The tough times that followed included more coaching changes. But there were also some personal successes: two Bulls won Rookie of the Year honors (the second of the two was voted league MVP), another won a 6th Man Award (his rookie season), a fan-favorite from Duke made the 2011-12 All-Defense team, and a 7-foot center from Florida won the 2012-13 NBA Player of the Year. Yes, there were good times as well (think Bench Mob!). The current 2021-2022 Bulls, led by coach Billy Donovan, entered the playoffs with the addition of All NBA (2nd Team) forward DeMar DeRozan, Olympian Zach LeVine, center Nikola Vucevic, 3rd year guard Coby White, and rookie guard Ayu Dosunmu. This was truly DeRozan's year - tying NBA record first set by Larry Bird (1985) and breaking another set by Wilt Chamberlain in the 1960s. What's included? Year-by year Standings, Club news, draft choices, player trades, dozens of season games and all post-season summaries. For more context: there's League news, noteworthy league games, stat leaders, year-end award winners, and Finals outcomes.
Author: Jim Gigliotti
Publisher: Lerner Publications TM
Published: 2024-08-01
Total Pages: 35
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKQuarterbacks Joe Burrow and Dan Marino succeeded with strong arms, pinpoint passes, and great leadership skills. Choose a favorite by reliving their greatest throws and white-knuckle victories. Who will win this quarterback smackdown?
Author: Harvey Araton
Publisher: Triumph Books
Published: 2019-04-16
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 164125193X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHoward Beck. Marc Stein. Jonathan Abrams. Chris Broussard. Ira Berkow. George Vecsey. Mike Wise. Selena Roberts. Lee Jenkins. All have graced the pages of The New York Times, entertaining readers with their probing coverage of the N.B.A.: a stage on which spectacular athletes perform against a backdrop of continuous social change. Now, their work and more is collected in a new volume, edited and annotated by Hall of Fame honoree Harvey Araton, tracing basketball's sustained boom from Magic and Bird to the present. Elevated provides a courtside seat to four decades of professional basketball. Both the iconic moments and those quieter, but no less meaningful times in between are here, from Wise riding around Los Angeles with a young Kobe Bryant on the eve of his first All-Star Game, to Stein declaring Giannis Antetokounmpo's "unspeakable greatness" to the world in a riveting profile. Rather than simply preserving the past, Elevated reexamines and further illuminates hoops history. This expertly curated collection features exclusive new writing by Araton and postscripts from the original journalists, revealing candid exchanges with NBA greats that didn't make the original newspaper edit and tracing the rise of a worldwide phenomenon from a contemporary vantage point.
Author: Wayne Stewart
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-11-01
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1493072773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow was basketball born? Why is the area in the paint and around the free throw circle known as the key? When did the NBA begin play? What team was arguably the worst NBA squad ever? Who was the highest drafted college player who never played a single game in the NBA? This book provides over 100 questions and detailed answers concerning the traditions, rules, and history of basketball. Organized by the sport’s three eras—its birth through 1945, the NBA from 1946 through 1999, and the game today—it answers questions about the sport at all levels, from college games to the Olympics. A bonus chapter provides a who, what, when, where, why, and how of basketball—the perfect resource to settle arguments or to answer challenging trivia questions.
Author: Fred Bowen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-01-18
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1534460446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCelebrate seventy-five years of the NBA in this exciting and beautifully illustrated middle grade account of the legendary athletes, coaches, and teams that changed basketball forever and created a national phenomenon enjoyed by millions today. The National Basketball Association is the biggest league for one of the nation’s most beloved sports. Played in massive stadiums by athletes who are now household names, with millions of fans around the world, basketball has truly become a global phenomenon. But it didn’t always exist the way we know it now. Follow basketball from its humble beginnings as a casual indoor pastime played in gyms and colleges through its evolution for seventy-five years of hardcourt history. The NBA gained legions of fans thanks to the introduction of rules like the three-point line and the twenty-four second clock, and teams such as the Harlem Globetrotters, who paved the way for desegregated teams. Discover the story of the legendary Olympic Dream Team of 1992 and beloved players like Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and LeBron James, along with the early game-changers who made basketball what it is today. With the expert storytelling of veteran sportswriter Fred Bowen and stunning full-page illustrations from award-winning artist James E. Ransome, experience the biggest and best basketball league in the world, the NBA.
