A runaway #1 New York Times bestseller and "a must-read for any NBA fan" (The Denver Post), the ultimate pro basketball book penned by the most popular sportswriter at work today is now a handsome trade paperback featuring new material from the author!
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER .The wildly opinionated, thoroughly entertaining, and arguably definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA-from the founder of The Ringer and host of The Bill Simmons Podcast
Enough provocative arguments to fuel barstool arguments far into the future.
-The Wall Street Journal
In The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons opens-and then closes, once and for all-every major NBA debate, from the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid- Simmons's one-of-a-kind five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing- The Secret of Basketball.
Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game's finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.
The Book of Basketball
Gotta love Bill Simmons. Even if you disagree with him, his style, and his liberal use of footnotes is highly entertaining.
In this book he chronicles the history of the NBA and ranks everything that needs to be ranked, and comes up with meaningful new analytical tools like stocks being steals and blocks combined.
If you like the NBA, you have to read this book.
Greg, 25/10/2012
