Download or read book The Greatest Basketball Player I Ever Saw written by Dr. Len Bergantino Ed.D. Ph.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hello Len, Thank you for the book ‘Billy Finn’! I love your passion for basketball and enjoyed reading your book. Since you witnessed USC/ UCLA games with Bob Boyd, John Wooden, and Lew Alcindor, you certainly have seen some of the best Trojans & Bruins of all time. All the best to your (and your book sales!). -Andy Enfield
Download or read book BILLY FINN written by Len Bergantino Ed. D PH. D and published by Infusedmedia. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To notice greatness and not deny greatness in others you have to notice details that ordinary people often claim do not exist. As ordinary people would much rather blame the victim rather than do their own personal work of self-development. They often deny greatness in others to protect themselves from looking at their own shortcoming often through "hatred and deceptive manipulation (malevolent omnipotence) such was the case with Billy Finn, who were he not surrounded by assholes would have averaged fifty-two points a game instead of merely holding the state record of fifty-two points in one game! Greatness Kobe Bryant, Elgin Baylor, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Bill Russell, Lebron James are all great and have an element of greatness that I have never seen surpassed in my 77 years. Kobe Bryant and Lebron James came into the National Basketball Association or NBA as it is called right out of high school. When Billy Finn played there was no such option! Bob Cousy, Famed Guard told him he has nothing to teach him in the seventh grade! Billy Finn was to basketball what Willie Mays was to baseball - the most exciting ballplayer that ever lived despite elements of greatness in others. For example, Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw. I saw him take batting practice. He hit consecutive line drives so hard they nearly bounced back to 2nd base. This book lays out the details of what made Billy Finn the greatest basketball player whoever lived!
Download or read book Basketball s Greatest Players written by S. A. Kramer and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whose hands were so big he held the basketball like a grapefruit? Which center singlehandedly changed the way defense was played? From Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan, young hoops fans can read about eleven legendary players in this exciting look at basketball's greatest slam-dunking, hoop-hanging superstars.
Download or read book Thinking Basketball written by Ben Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are top scorers really the most valuable players? Are games decided in the final few minutes? Does the team with the best player usually win?Thinking Basketball challenges a number of common beliefs about the game by taking a deep dive into the patterns and history of the NBA. Explore how certain myths arose while using our own cognition as a window into the game's popular narratives. New basketball concepts are introduced, such as power plays, portability and why the best player shouldn't always shoot. Discover how the box score can be misleading, why "closers" are overrated and how the outcome of a game fundamentally alters our memory. Behavioral economics, traffic paradoxes and other metaphors highlight this thought-provoking insight into the NBA and our own thinking. A must-read for any basketball fan -- you'll never view the sport, and maybe the world, the same again.
Download or read book The Greatest Football Players of All Time written by Matthew Jankowski and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Hut, Hut, Hike!" This engaging volume serves as an introduction to some of the greatest athletes to grace the gridiron. Readers will discover the players who dominated their respective eras and see where their current favorites rank among the best of the best. The compelling text is organized by position so that any aspiring player can find an athlete to admire and strive to emulate. With gritty, star-studded photographs and flashy statistics tables, even a reluctant reader will go deep into this exciting text, learning as they imagine what it was like to play against the greatest of all time"--
Download or read book The Denial of Reverse Racism in America written by Dr. Len Bergantino Ed.D. Ph.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you think that some slug who looks very professional who "whispers" an occasional interpretation to you five times a week for 7 years can make one bit of difference in your life or does such a psychotoxic slug called a psychoanalyst merely stick you in an emotional toilet bowl for seven years having the cumulative result of turning you into a hopeless bastard who will never turn the tragic corner in his or her life? Can your analyst analyze an archaic liquid symbiotic or an osmotic transference, or can they even recognize this phenomena in order to analyze it? If the psychoanalyst cannot analyze these transferences they can't do an analysis! I used to get "good faith" patients who had the balls to work on the cutting edge at the same time I did because they had had combinations of twenty years of two seven year analyses plus several briefer psychotheraphies, only to be as crazy as the day they walked in! (-$200,000.00) As Dr. Donald Rinsley, M.D., fellow-American College of Psychoanalysts wrote about me, my work has both a healing effect and affect. Patients used to pay me six months in advance to hold the time open because I was irreplaceable; I was the only one who could analyze the psychotic core of the personality and I was the only who could actually do what Dr. Wilfred R. Bion, MRCS (Medical Royal College of Surgeons) wrote about analyzing the psychotic core of the personality/ As I am seventy-six years old, I have written five books that must be read and digested in their entirety. As these books are the thing-in-itself they will transform the reader into the kinds of analyst, patient and psychotherapist who can make a difference in helping people turn the tragic corner in their lives! In other words, these five books are analysis! These books were written to be around for a few hundred years and were directly guided by the Almighty! By: Dr. LEN BERGANTINO, Ed. D.(USC), Ph.D., A.B.P.P. I Am Freud! Psychoanalysis Is the Only Method of Cure: It’s Too Bad No One Knows How to Do One!!! This is a book for all-time. As I had extrasensory perception to help me find out things on a primitive level and depth with an ability to pick up split-off, severe pathological projective identifications moment to moment in an era when psychologists were only permitted to be research psychoanalysts by the American Psychoanalytic Association (but tightly controlled where that research was going that, in many ways, nullified it as true psychoanalytic research), I present to you a book that might, at that time, have been considered wild psychoanalysis. And I will show you how extrasensory perception can be developed and utilized by the therapeutic use of self within the psychoanalytic frame in ways that can enhance the treatment of borderline, narcissistic, obsessive-compulsive, and schizophrenic disorders and other diagnoses, as well as help pinpoint psychophysiological awareness, which, through the repetition compulsion, can prevent disease and will circumvent disease in later life.
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 The World s Greatest Basketball Players written by Matt Doeden and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2010 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the achievements and career statistics of basketball's greatest stars.
Download or read book Pittsburgh s Greatest Teams written by David Finoli and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pittsburgh is synonymous with winning. From the Penguins and Steelers to the Pirates and Panthers, the Steel City knows championships. There must be something special in the water to make Pittsburgh so particularly gifted with its sports teams. The most famous teams in the city's history would most likely be the 1970s Steelers, known as the Steel Curtain for obvious reasons, and the Penguins who raised the Stanley Cup five times. Names such as Lemieux, Crosby, Roethlisberger, Bradshaw, Clemente and Stargell are legends of American sport and members of Pittsburgh's most cherished franchises, but for every sports legend and multi-million dollar franchise, there are a dozen more talented players and long-past teams that have been forgotten to history; the Negro League's Crawford and Homestead Grays are too often overlooked in the city's sports history but were as talented as any team that has played there. Author Dave Finoli ranks the fifty greatest teams that won trophies, brought glory and lifted the hearts of Pittsburgh's devoted sports fans.
Download or read book Dynasty s End written by Thomas J. Whalen and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following summer, Russell stunned the sports world by announcing his retirement, ending his and the Celtics' celebrated reign."
Download or read book The Greatest Basketball Players of All Time written by Matt Jankowski and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the inception of the NBA in 1946 to the athletes of the league today, this entertaining volume serves as an introduction to the greatest superstars to play the game. The thrilling text is accessible to those who have never played basketball before and includes information on positions, how the game works, and which stats make the difference. Also featured is a section on the WNBA and how women are redefining what it means to excel. Readers will come for the action photographs and stay for the astonishing statistics as they imagine themselves watching the greatest to ever compete.
Download or read book Kansas University Basketball Legends written by Kenneth N. Johnson PhD and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The University of Kansas's men's basketball team is one of the oldest and most successful in the history of college basketball; the very inventor of the sport, Dr. James Naismith, was KU's first coach. Its long and illustrious history began in 1898 and includes some of the biggest names in the game, from legends like Wilt Chamberlain to "secret weapons" like Andrea Hudy, the only female strength and conditioning coach in the division. Longtime Jayhawk enthusiast Kenn Johnson offers up a unique and in-depth look at the players, coaches and other personalities who helped make the University of Kansas basketball program the unparalleled tradition it is today.
Download or read book The Lafayette Journal and Courier Presents Most Memorable Moments in Purdue Basketball History written by Lafayette Journal and Courier and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ward 'Piggy' Lambert to Gene Keady, John Wooden to Glenn Robinson, the glorious history of Purdue Boilermaker basketball is documented in Most Memorable Moments in Purdue Basketball through Lafayette Journal and Courier game stories, news reports, features and columns. Enhancing the collection of stories and photos are 10 new features, filling in the gaps of some of the greatest players' and coaches' careers.
Download or read book Showtime written by Jeff Pearlman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of Sweetness delivers the first all-encompassing account of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of professional sports’ most-revered—and dominant—dynasties. The Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s personified the flamboyance and excess of the decade over which they reigned. Beginning with the arrival of Earvin “Magic” Johnson as the number-one overall pick of the 1979 draft, the Lakers played basketball with gusto and pizzazz, unleashing their famed “Showtime” run-and-gun style on a league unprepared for their speed and ferocity—and became the most captivating show in sports and, arguably, in all-around American entertainment. The Lakers’ roster overflowed with exciting all-star-caliber players, including center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and they were led by the incomparable Pat Riley, known for his slicked-back hair, his Armani suits, and his arrogant strut. Hollywood’s biggest celebrities lined the court and gorgeous women flocked to the arena. Best of all, the team was a winner. Between 1980 and 1991, the Lakers played in an unmatched nine NBA championship series, capturing five of them. Bestselling sportswriter Jeff Pearlman draws from almost three hundred interviews to take the first full measure of the Lakers’ epic Showtime era. A dazzling account of one of America’s greatest sports sagas, Showtime is packed with indelible characters, vicious rivalries, and jaw-dropping, behind-the-scenes stories of the players’ decadent Hollywood lifestyles. From the Showtime era’s remarkable rise to its tragic end—marked by Magic Johnson’s 1991 announcement that he had contracted HIV—Showtime is a gripping narrative of sports, celebrity, and 1980s-style excess.
Download or read book 40 Greatest Players in Boston Celtics Basketball History written by Robert W. Cohen and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with the Boston Red Sox and the New England Patriots, both of which have been the subject of “50 Greatest” treatments by Bob Cohen, the Boston Celtics is one of the most iconic professional basketball teams, representing a multi-state region rather than just a city or state. Some of the sport’s greatest played for the Celtics: Bill Russell in the 1950s, John Havlicek in the 70s, Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, and Robert Parrish in the 80s, and recently Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and Kevin Garnett. Sports historian Robert W. Cohen has chosen the best to ever wear the uniform, and he provides a short biographical profile, key stats, and details about each players exploits on the court.
Download or read book Billy Finn written by Ed. D. (Usc) Ph. D. Bergantino and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To notice greatness and not deny greatness in others you have to notice details that ordinary people often claim do not exist. As ordinary people would much rather blame the victim rather than do their own personal work of self development. They often deny greatness in others to protect themselves from looking at their own shortcoming often through "hatred and deceptive manipulation (malevolent omnipotence) such was the case with Billy Finn, who were he not surrounded by assholes would have averaged fifty two points a game instead of merely holding the state record of fifty two points in one game! Greatness Kobe Bryant, Elgin Baylor, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Bill Russell, Lebron James are all great and have an element of greatness that I have never seen surpassed in my 77 years. Kobe Bryant and Lebron James came into the National Basketball Association or NBA as it is called right out of high school. When Billy Finn played there was no such option! Bob Cousy, Famed Guard told him he has nothing to teach him in the seventh grade! Billy Finn was to basketball what Willie Mays was to baseball - the most exciting ballplayer that ever lived despite elements of greatness in others. For example, Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw. I saw him take batting practice. He hit consecutive line drives so hard they nearly bounced back to 2nd base. This book lays out the details of what made Billy Finn the greatest basketball player whoever lived!
Download or read book I Am Freud Psychoanalysis Is the Only Method of Cure It s Too Bad No One Knows How to Do One written by Dr. Len Bergantino Ed.D. Ph.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you think that some slug who looks very professional who "whispers" an occasional interpretation to you five times a week for 7 years can make one bit of difference in your life or does such a psychotoxic slug called a psychoanalyst merely stick you in an emotional toilet bowl for seven years having the cumulative result of turning you into a hopeless bastard who will never turn the tragic corner in his or her life? Can your analyst analyze an archaic liquid symbiotic or an osmotic transference, or can they even recognize this phenomena in order to analyze it? If the psychoanalyst cannot analyze these transferences they can't do an analysis! I used to get "good faith" patients who had the balls to work on the cutting edge at the same time I did because they had had combinations of twenty years of two seven year analyses plus several briefer psychotheraphies, only to be as crazy as the day they walked in! (-$200,000.00) As Dr. Donald Rinsley, M.D., fellow-American College of Psychoanalysts wrote about me, my work has both a healing effect and affect. Patients used to pay me six months in advance to hold the time open because I was irreplaceable; I was the only one who could analyze the psychotic core of the personality and I was the only who could actually do what Dr. Wilfred R. Bion, MRCS (Medical Royal College of Surgeons) wrote about analyzing the psychotic core of the personality/ As I am seventy-six years old, I have written five books that must be read and digested in their entirety. As these books are the thing-in-itself they will transform the reader into the kinds of analyst, patient and psychotherapist who can make a difference in helping people turn the tragic corner in their lives! In other words, these five books are analysis! These books were written to be around for a few hundred years and were directly guided by the Almighty! By: Dr. LEN BERGANTINO, Ed. D.(USC), Ph.D., A.B.P.P. I Am Freud! Psychoanalysis Is the Only Method of Cure: It’s Too Bad No One Knows How to Do One!!! This is a book for all-time. As I had extrasensory perception to help me find out things on a primitive level and depth with an ability to pick up split-off, severe pathological projective identifications moment to moment in an era when psychologists were only permitted to be research psychoanalysts by the American Psychoanalytic Association (but tightly controlled where that research was going that, in many ways, nullified it as true psychoanalytic research), I present to you a book that might, at that time, have been considered wild psychoanalysis. And I will show you how extrasensory perception can be developed and utilized by the therapeutic use of self within the psychoanalytic frame in ways that can enhance the treatment of borderline, narcissistic, obsessive-compulsive, and schizophrenic disorders and other diagnoses, as well as help pinpoint psychophysiological awareness, which, through the repetition compulsion, can prevent disease and will circumvent disease in later life.
