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Cover of the book. Loose Balls: The Short Wild Life of the American Basketball Association is a sports book originally published in 1990 by Simon & Schuster.The book, a history of the original American Basketball Association, was written by sportswriter Terry Pluto, although much of his writing is limited to introductions and summaries of each season.
Published by Ballantine Books, Dohrmann's first book was the result of more than eight years of investigative work. [3] Joe Keller, the coach Dohrmann tracked over those eight years, was a grassroots basketball coach in the Inland Empire in the mid-1990s when he discovered a young Tyson Chandler. Keller and his wife committed most of their time ...
Chip Hilton books are always about football, basketball, or baseball. The most notable book in the series is Hoop Crazy, which examines the difficulties facing a black player wanting to join the basketball team. This is the only Chip Hilton book addressing social issues, and it does so in a compelling manner, although some of the early works ...
Ravin's sports memoir, The Hoops Whisperer: On the Court and Inside the Head of Basketball's Best Players documents Ravin's journey from coaching youth teams to becoming one of basketball's most famous trainers. Published by Penguin, the book released May 1, 2014. [9] [10]
Pages in category "Basketball books" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 07 Seconds or Less; B.
He won the Basketball Hall of Fame's Curt Gowdy Media Award – Print in 2005. [2] During the 2005–06 NBA pre-season, McCallum began working as an unofficial assistant coach with the Phoenix Suns NBA basketball team, based in Phoenix, Arizona, as part of an assignment for Sports Illustrated. The piece soon evolved into a larger project, as ...
Darcy Frey is an American writer and educator from New York. His 1994 book The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams won awards and inspired a movie. Frey has published articles in New England Monthly, Rolling Stone, Harper's, and The New York Times Magazine.
After college, he played for Scranton Miners in the old Eastern Professional Basketball League, [4] and taught English at Hofstra University on Long Island, New York. From 1983 to 1986, he was an assistant to Phil Jackson [ 5 ] with the Albany Patroons of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA).