The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
By
Gladwell, Malcolm,
Bill Simmons
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| Price: | $30.00 |
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| Categories: | General Fiction |
| ISBN: | 9780345513113 |
| Publisher: | Random House, Inc. |
| Language: | English |
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Helpful Customer Reviews
The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
Bobby (Chicago, IL)
Mon Nov 16 2009 11:56
Thoughts (Simmons style):
Simmons must have hired John Iriving's editor to edit this book... and that's not a complement. What was the point of the Grumpy Old Editor? To not edit?
I think this is the world longest coffee table book.
The Most Valuable Chapter? Wh...more...
Jhk711 (The United States)
Fri Feb 26 2010 08:16
I was a die-hard hoops fan back in the Magic-Bird era. For awhile it became more fashionable to be a fan of college basketball than pro, and I followed suit to a degree. Simmons is roughly my age and his perspective on the game (though far better informed) is similar to mine. The book is a great ...more...
Bart (San Antonio, TX)
Tue Nov 17 2009 22:08
Bill Simmons is indefatigable, and he loves basketball – which is a sport about making your teammates better.
There. After twenty-three hours of reading Simmons’s 700-page book, these are the three things you’ll have a firm grasp on. You’ll also have a wealth of factoids and sta...more...
Patrick (Denver, CO)
Wed May 05 2010 00:07
If you are a fan of basketball and a fan of Bill SImmons, you will probably like this book. I don't think the New Yorker will be calling for me to review books in their magazine after that statement, but the book is 700 pages of Simmons explaining his side of hundreds of arguments that NBA fans hav...more...
Todd (Chicago, IL)
Mon Nov 16 2009 11:34
I've had a love/hate relationship with Bill Simmons for about 5 or 6 years now. I love his great witty writing, and complete devotion as a sports fan, and I hate the fact that he's a Boston fan, and most of the time comes off as a pretentious douche.
Having read his columns for so long, ...more...
Omar3388 (Piscataway, NJ)
Fri Jan 08 2010 20:06
This is an excellent book. It is well-researched and covers a wide range of NBA history. I am glad Simmons did not overlook history from the pre-Magic/Bird era. Basketball history is all too often treated as if it began in 1980 and "really" began during the Jordan era.
The book ...more...
Alec (The United States)
Mon Apr 19 2010 12:36
For a book that dealt largely with players that I have never seen and arguments that I have no interest in, The Book of Basketball was very entertaining and I flew through the 700+ pages surprisingly quickly. I am a Bill Simmons fan, so perhaps this is not shocking; however, I think the main reason ...more...
Kevin "El Liso Grande" (Kokomo, IN)
Wed Nov 11 2009 20:14
wow! 700+ pages of NBA only thoughts from bill simmons (aka the sports guy from ESPN). an epic manifesto of hoops hoo-ha. let me begin by saying that if you are not already a major league fan of NBA history you will not get this book. even if you are a fan of simmons' offbeat, wacky cultural referen...more...
Brian (San Diego, CA)
Mon Jan 18 2010 23:19
I've always loved basketball but certain times over the last 15 years my love has waned. I was a Celtics fan before they got Bird so this book was exciting for me because the author is a life long Celtics fan and had season tickets for a long time in his youth seeing all the classic Larry Bird years...more...
Jason (Charlottesville, VA)
Sat Mar 06 2010 01:11
This obvious labor of love stretches over 700 pages, and I daresay I read the whole damn thing. Simmons, a Boston guy, uses the '60s Celtics (and Bill Russell in particular) as a fulcrum on which he balances the old days of basketball--the pre-dunking, pre-three-point, pre-African American-dominated...more...
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