Download or read book Basketball Records written by Thomas K. Adamson and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swish! Stephen Curry has just made a record-breaking 3-point shot. This moment cements his place as a basketball legend! Unbelievable basketball records are on display in this exciting title for young readers. The book explores favorite teams and players who dribbled their way into stardom by scoring points, making passes, and more!

Download or read book Pro Basketball Records written by Matt Chandler and published by Compass Point Books. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive look at pro basketball records covers everything from Wilt Chamberlain's list-topping 100-point game to the lowly Charlotte Bobcats mark for fewest wins in a season. Among the record highs and lows, budding fans will find loads of epic accomplishments and eye-popping numbers. And discovering basketball's record book only multiplies the fun and wonder of following the game.

Download or read book Pro Basketball Records written by Matt Chandler and published by Compass Point Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This ... look at pro basketball records covers everything from Wilt Chamberlain's list-topping 100-point game to the ... Charlotte Bobcats mark for fewest wins in a season"--ONIX annotation.

Download or read book The Ultimate Collection of Pro Basketball Records written by Tyler Dean Omoth and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pro basketball players dream of dominating the court and breaking records. Greats from Wilt Chamberlain to Michael Jordan have earned their place in pro basketball history. Find the answers to the following questions and more inside The Ultimate Collection of Pro Basketball Records. Who is the all-time scoring champion? Who is the only player to average a triple-double over an entire season? Which two teams combined for the most points in a game with 370? What coach holds the record for career wins?

Download or read book The Official NBA Basketball Encyclopedia written by Alex Sachare and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised and updated, this definitive guide to professional basketball provides complete stats for every player, a history of the sport, anecdotes about key events, essays, and information on coaches, rules, officials, and more. 50,000 first printing.

Download or read book Basketball Super Stats written by Jeff Savage and published by Lerner Publications ™. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basketball players, coaches, and fans can tell a lot about a game from its statistics. Now you can too—because this book is full of them! Fun facts, charts, and graphs on almost every page show some of the most incredible stats in basketball history, including free throw percentages, triple-doubles, win streaks, and NBA championships. Explore the most important team and individual stats, and learn why the numbers matter.

Download or read book Great Teams in Pro Basketball History written by Joe Giglio and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2005-12-13 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Teams in Pro Basketball History names ten of the greatest teams in pro basketball and tells what made them stand out. Learn which players were MVPs and the records of unstoppable teams. Discover how players came together to beat their opponents. Read about changes that were constantly being made to keep up with the growing sport. From talented players to dynamic coaches, this book spans almost 40 years to find the best in pro basketball history. Book jacket.

Download or read book Basketball s Record Breakers written by Shane Frederick and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden State Warriors' pursuit of the Chicago Bulls' record for regular season wins captivated the basketball world, as did the Warriors' record-setting win streak to open the same season. Fans marveled, just as they had in earlier years as Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Wilt Chamberlain set records that some fans consider unbreakable. Here are pro basketball's greatest records and the stories of the teams and players who have held, chased, and broken them.

Download or read book The Book of Basketball written by Bill Simmons and published by ESPN. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The NBA according to The Sports Guy—now updated with fresh takes on LeBron, the Celtics, and more! Foreword by Malcom Gladwell • “The work of a true fan . . . it might just represent the next phase of sports commentary.”—The Atlantic Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining basketball addict known to millions as ESPN’s The Sports Guy, has written the definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA. 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, Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major pro basketball debate. 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.

Download or read book Wilt 1962 written by Gary M. Pomerantz and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young and striking athlete celebrated as the Big Dipper, scored one hundred points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers. As historic and revolutionary as the achievement was, it remains shrouded in myth. The game was not televised; no New York sportswriters showed up; and a fourteen-year-old local boy ran onto the court when Chamberlain scored his hundredth point, shook his hand, and then ran off with the basketball. In telling the story of this remarkable night, author Gary M. Pomerantz brings to life a lost world of American sports. In 1962, the National Basketball Association, stepchild to the college game, was searching for its identity. Its teams were mostly white, the number of black players limited by an unspoken quota. Games were played in drafty, half-filled arenas, and the players traveled on buses and trains, telling tall tales, playing cards, and sometimes reading Joyce. Into this scene stepped the unprecedented Wilt Chamberlain: strong and quick-witted, voluble and enigmatic, a seven-footer who played with a colossal will and a dancer’s grace. That strength, will, grace, and mystery were never more in focus than on March 2, 1962. Pomerantz tracked down Knicks and Philadelphia Warriors, fans, journalists, team officials, other NBA stars of the era, and basketball historians, conducting more than 250 interviews in all, to recreate in painstaking detail the game that announced the Dipper’s greatness. He brings us to Hershey, Pennsylvania, a sweet-seeming model of the gentle, homogeneous small-town America that was fast becoming anachronistic. We see the fans and players, alternately fascinated and confused by Wilt, drawn anxiously into the spectacle. Pomerantz portrays the other legendary figures in this story: the Warriors’ elegant coach Frank McGuire; the beloved, if rumpled, team owner Eddie Gottlieb; and the irreverent p.a. announcer Dave “the Zink” Zinkoff, who handed out free salamis courtside. At the heart of the book is the self-made Chamberlain, a romantic cosmopolitan who owned a nightclub in Harlem and shrugged off segregation with a bebop cool but harbored every slight deep in his psyche. March 2, 1962, presented the awesome sight of Wilt Chamberlain imposing himself on a world that would diminish him. Wilt, 1962 is not only the dramatic story of a singular basketball game but a meditation on small towns, midcentury America, and one of the most intriguing figures in the pantheon of sports heroes. Also available as a Random House AudioBook

Download or read book The Rise of the National Basketball Association written by David George Surdam and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's National Basketball Association commands millions of spectators worldwide, and its many franchises are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But the league wasn't always so successful or glamorous: in the 1940s and 1950s, the NBA and its predecessor, the Basketball Association of America, were scrambling to attract fans. Teams frequently played in dingy gymnasiums, players traveled as best they could, and their paychecks could bounce higher than a basketball. How did the NBA evolve from an obscure organization facing financial losses to a successful fledgling sports enterprise by 1960? Drawing on information from numerous archives, newspaper and periodical articles, and Congressional hearings, The Rise of the National Basketball Association chronicles the league's growing pains from 1946 to 1961. David George Surdam describes how a handful of ambitious ice hockey arena owners created the league as a way to increase the use of their facilities, growing the organization by fits and starts. Rigorously analyzing financial data and league records, Surdam points to the innovations that helped the NBA thrive: regular experiments with rules changes to make the game more attractive to fans, and the emergence of televised sports coverage as a way of capturing a larger audience. Notably, the NBA integrated in 1950, opening the game to players who would dominate the game by the end of the 1950sdecade: Bill Russell, Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, and Oscar Robertson. Long a game that players loved to play, basketball became a professional sport well supported by community leaders, business vendors, and an ever-growing number of fans.

Download or read book The Complete Handbook of Pro Basketball 1993 written by Zander Hollander and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 1992-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first slam dunk to the NBA Finals, this 19th edition of the popular guide highlights all the stars and teams who bring the thrill to America's favorite indoor game. Indispensable for season-long viewing, the handbook includes expert scouting reports, 300 coach and player profiles, college draft, records, rosters, schedules, hundreds of photos, and more.

Download or read book Big Time Basketball Records written by Thom Storden and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SWISH! Little excites basketball fans more than when a player hits nothing but net--except when that sweet shot sets a new record! Behind every big-time basketball record is a dramatic story of how a player or team achieved greatness on the court. From the greatest three-point shooters to the winningest teams of all time, here are the record-setting moments that will keep basketball fans turning the page for more.

Download or read book Boston Celtics Encyclopedia written by Peter C. Bjarkman and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Big Men Who Shook the NBA written by Mark Heisler and published by Triumph Books (IL). This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Men Who Shook the NBA includes compelling and surprisingly frank profiles of the 25 best NBA centers ever. Each player's greatest games, moments, and achievements are captured dramatic photographs, detailed anecdotes, and statistical support. The men who couldn't be stopped combine for a book that can't be put down.

Download or read book Basketball s Greatest Records written by Ryan Nagelhout and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scored 38,387 points during his professional basketball career! Readers discover this and many other fascinating facts as they explore the history of basketball and its most impressive records. From points to blocks, the fundamentals of the sport are explained in a creative way—through the players who were the best at each aspect of the game. Engaging photographs accompany informative text about both men’s and women’s basketball, and stat boxes help readers learn to use charts to compare information. Biographies of the game’s most famous players are also included.

Download or read book Who s who of Pro Basketball written by Tyler Omoth and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introduces readers to the most dynamic pro basketball stars of today and yesterday, including notable statistics and records"--