Download or read book The NBA Draft Almanac 2021 Edition written by Richard Lu and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2021 edition of The NBA Draft Almanac is a complete reference guide that covers everything that you need to know about this year's draft. Inside, you will find detailed scouting reports on the top college and international prospects, along with a comprehensive look into the state of all 30 NBA teams. If you are looking for the best available information to prepare for the 2021 NBA Draft, then pick up a copy of the 2021 edition of The NBA Draft Almanac. As always, a portion of every copy sold will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union to support the fight for racial justice, voting rights as well as the constitutional rights of everybody. The fight for equality is more important than basketball, so we should do everything in our power to move towards this goal.

Download or read book The 2021 22 NBA Preview Almanac written by Richard Lu and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-26 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2021-22 NBA Preview Almanac is a complete reference guide that provides detailed analysis to preview the upcoming NBA season, based on proprietary projection methods that are backed by years of intensive research. This almanac includes in-depth scouting reports and forecasts of every individual player, along with extensive breakdowns of the expected performance of all 30 NBA teams. Additionally, this year's edition will recap the best defensive players from the 2020-21 season using a combination of readily available and exclusive metrics. If you are looking for the best available resource to prepare for the 2021-22 NBA season, then check out The 2021-22 NBA Preview Almanac. As always, a portion of every copy sold will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union to support the fight for racial justice, voting rights, as well as the constitutional rights of everybody. The fight for equality is much more important than basketball, so we should do everything in our power to move towards this goal.

Download or read book The NBA Draft Almanac 2020 Edition written by Richard Lu and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2020 edition of the NBA Draft Almanac is a comprehensive reference guide that provides detailed analysis of all matters related to the upcoming NBA Draft on October 15, 2020. This year's almanac includes full scouting reports on all of the top college and international draft prospects as well as insights into the state of all 30 NBA teams, not to mention a quick preview of the upcoming playoffs. If you are looking for the best available information for this year's draft, then pick up a copy of this 2020 edition of the NBA Draft Almanac. In light of the current times, it's critical to note that there are issues that are more important than basketball. Racial intolerance is unacceptable and we should do everything in our power to fight for equality. With this in mind, a portion of every copy that is sold will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union to support the push for reforms that will end police brutality against the black community as well as racial injustice against all minorities.

Download or read book The 2020 21 NBA Preview Almanac written by Richard Lu and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2020-21 NBA Preview Almanac is a comprehensive reference guide that delivers in-depth analysis to preview the upcoming NBA season, using proprietary forecasting methods based on years of meticulous research. This almanac includes complete scouting reports and projections of every individual NBA player, along with thorough breakdowns of the expected performance of all 30 teams. In addition, this year's edition of the preview almanac will discuss new methods and metrics to analyze individual defensive matchups and quantify a player's ability to play on-ball defense. If you are looking for the best available resource to get ready for the approaching 2020-21 NBA season, then check out The 2020-21 NBA Preview Almanac. As an important note, a portion of every copy sold will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union to support the fight for racial justice, voting rights as well as the constitutional rights of all people. After all, the fight for equality is more important than basketball. Therefore, we should do everything that we can to push for this goal.

Download or read book The NBA Draft Almanac 2017 Edition written by Richard Lu and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2017 edition of The NBA Draft Almanac is an all-encompassing reference guide that provides in-depth analysis on the top college and international prospects in the 2017 NBA Draft, based on years of research and practical application that have helped professional teams in the past. It also provides detailed reports on the status of all 30 NBA teams heading into the 2017 off-season. Richard Lu has sorted through each NBA roster as well as the complex salary cap rules to allow the reader know how much salary cap space each team has, what free agents are available and the recommended path they should take this off-season based on their current roster situation. If you are looking for insightful knowledge about where any NBA team is headed in the future or want the best available information on this year's upcoming draft prospects, read The NBA Draft Almanac, 2017 edition.Editing note: The primary goal of this book is to provide readers with top notch analysis about the 2017 NBA Draft and to deliver this in a timely fashion. As of August 2, 2017, errors from the previous upload have been fixed, although it may not be reflected in the preview. If a new error is found, the author sincerely apologizes and a fully corrected edition will be uploaded at your request. Corrected copy requests can be made by contacting the author at [email protected].

Download or read book The NBA Summer Almanac 2019 Edition written by Richard Lu and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2019 edition of the NBA Summer Almanac is a comprehensive reference guide that thoroughly analyzes all matters related to the this year's NBA Offseason. This almanac includes full scouting reports on this year's draft prospects, free agent contract projections and detailed breakdowns of the current state of all 30 NBA teams along with deep dive research that you can't find anywhere else. If you are looking for the best available information that covers the draft, free agency and the future direction of every NBA team, then pick up a copy of this 2019 edition of The Summer Almanac. Please note: This cover is one of two available options.

Download or read book The NBA Summer Almanac 2019 Edition written by Richard Lu and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2019 edition of the NBA Summer Almanac is a comprehensive reference guide that thoroughly analyzes all matters related to the this year's NBA Offseason. This almanac includes full scouting reports on this year's draft prospects, free agent contract projections and detailed breakdowns of the current state of all 30 NBA teams along with deep dive research that you can't find anywhere else. If you are looking for the best available information that covers the draft, free agency and the future direction of every NBA team, then pick up a copy of this 2019 edition of The Summer Almanac. Please note: This cover is one of four available options.

Download or read book The NBA Summer Almanac 2019 Edition written by Richard Lu and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2019 edition of the NBA Summer Almanac is a comprehensive reference guide that thoroughly analyzes all matters related to the this year's NBA Offseason. This almanac includes full scouting reports on this year's draft prospects, free agent contract projections and detailed breakdowns of the current state of all 30 NBA teams along with deep dive research that you can't find anywhere else. If you are looking for the best available information that covers the draft, free agency and the future direction of every NBA team, then pick up a copy of this 2019 edition of The Summer Almanac. Please note: This cover is one of two available options.

Download or read book The NBA Summer Almanac 2018 Edition written by Richard Lu and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2018 edition of The NBA Summer Almanac is an all-encompassing reference guide that provides in-depth analysis of all matters related to the 2018 NBA Offseason. This almanac includes detailed reports on this year's upcoming draft prospects, free agency projections and insights on the status of all 30 NBA teams heading into the summer along with a new methodology to quantifiably evaluate NBA contracts. If you are looking for the best available information on the draft, free agency and the prospective futures of any NBA team, read this 2018 edition of The NBA Summer Almanac. Please Note: This cover is one of two available options.

Download or read book Glory Days written by L. Jon Wertheim and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly coincidental stories all collided and changed the way we think about modern sports The summer of 1984 was a watershed moment in the birth of modern sports when the nation watched Michael Jordan grow from college basketball player to professional athlete and star. That summer also saw ESPN's rise to media dominance as the country's premier sports network and the first modern, commercialized, profitable Olympics. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird's rivalry raged, Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe reigned in tennis, and Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon made pro wrestling a business, while Donald Trump pierced the national consciousness as a pro football team owner. It was an awakening in the sports world, a moment when sports began to morph into the market-savvy, sensationalized, moneyed, controversial, and wildly popular arena we know today. In the tradition of Bill Bryson's One Summer: America, 1927, L. Jon Wertheim captures these 90 seminal days against the backdrop of the nostalgia-soaked 1980s, to show that this was the year we collectively traded in our ratty Converses for a pair of sleek, heavily branded, ingeniously marketed Nikes. This was the year that sports went big-time.

Download or read book The History of the NBA in Twelve Games written by Sean Deveney and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its early days as a physical, plodding game with franchises parked in outpost towns like Fort Wayne, Moline, and Rochester, to today’s international showcase sport, professional basketball has evolved dramatically over the decades. But the development of the National Basketball Association and its star players was not preordained. There were moments, both obvious and subtle, that steered the direction of the sport, whether it was Bill Russell’s swan song, a near-miss on Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant's All-Star debut at nineteen, a LeBron James legacy game or a deep 3-point-shot by Steph Curry, these moments gradually brought us the NBA we know today—a scrappy league that was jump-started by a 24-second timer and will be defined by the 30,000 3-pointers its players knock down per season. Veteran NBA reporter and editor Sean Deveney will explore the unique characters and backstories of 12 crucial games in the history of the NBA, while putting them into the context of their influence on the direction of the league.

Download or read book History of the NBA 1966 2023 written by Brian Aldridge and published by Classic Sports Journal. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the NBA was not all that popular in 1966 - now look at it! How did the NBA get from 9 teams (1965-66) to the current 30? Answer: legends, stars, mergers, a strong commissioner, timing, the 1992 Summer Olympics and an influx of foreign players. It's all here! Check this out: rule changes, league news, trades, trends, lists of rookies, noteworthy season and playoff games, records, scandals, scoring leaders, rebounding leaders, year-end award winners, and championship results.

Download or read book The Official NBA Encyclopedia written by Jan Hubbard and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 12, 1891, 13 rules of a new game were posted in a YMCA gym in Springfield, Massachusetts. At each end of the floor, Dr. James A. Naismith, who had invented the game, had peach baskets nailed below a walkway that happened to be 10-feet high. Within a few days, one of Naismith's students would christen the new game "Basket Ball." Over a century ago, no one could possibly have envisioned the extraordinary changes that were going to transform Dr. Naismith's game. Who could have imagined a 6-10 George Mikan swatting shots away from the basket? Julius Erving in flight, soaring in from the free throw line for a heart-stopping stuff? Or Bob Cousy throwing a mind-boggling no-look, behind-the-back pass; Jerry West hitting a 60-foot shot with no time left in a crucial playoff game; Larry Bird's three-point prowess and Michael Jordan rising to heights - literally and figuratively - never before seen by any athlete? Who could have foreseen more than 62,000 fans crowded into the Georgia Dome to see a game between the Chicago Bulls and Atlanta Hawks? Or the titanic battles between Wilt and Russell? Or the Dream Team? The longevity of Stockton and Malone? Red Auerbach's victory cigars? Phil Jackson's Zen coaching? Or Shaquille O'Neal's powerful dunks? Who could have ever predicted talent like Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley, Walt Frazier, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Grant Hill, Vince Carter, Jason Kidd, Allen Iverson, and Kobe Bryant? With an Introduction by NBA Commissioner David J. Stern and a Foreword by Michael Jordan, this third edition of The Official NBA Encyclopedia captures it all: The past and the present. The complete stats and the complex personalities. Dynasties, rivalries, coaches, referees, all the pre-NBA leagues, vignettes and features by the top basketball writers in the world. Every NBA season is reviewed and individual statistics are provided for every player who has ever played in the league. An extraordinary 32-page color photo essay that captures the spirit of the game since Naismith conceived it opens this encyclopedia in an unprecedented and spectacular manner. From the peach basket to the slam dunk championship - it's all here in The Official NBA Encyclopedia, a book that's almost as exciting as a triple overtime seventh game of the NBA Finals.

Download or read book A History of the Nets written by Rick Laughland and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relive the Ups and Downs of the Storied Saga of the Nomadic Nets The Nets have led a wandering existence spanning over five decades. The team has been known as the New Jersey Americans, New York Nets, New Jersey Nets and now Brooklyn Nets, while constantly relocating throughout the New York metropolitan area. Though often plagued by instability and futility, the franchise has celebrated iconic moments in the course of ABA and NBA history. Julius Erving's legendary play led the team to a pair of ABA titles in 1974 and 1976. The meteoric rise of European superstar Dražen Petrović followed by his tragic death in 1993 is etched into basketball fans' hearts worldwide. Jason Kidd's uncommon will steered New Jersey to back-to-back NBA Finals appearances in 2002 and 2003. An enlightening phone call from NBA commissioner David Stern in 1997 paved the way for the team's move to Brooklyn in 2012. Author Rick Laughland charts the brutal lows and exuberant highs throughout the history of the Nets.

Download or read book By the Grace of the Game written by Dan Grunfeld and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-generational family epic detailing history's only known journey from Auschwitz to the NBA When Lily and Alex entered a packed gymnasium in Queens, New York in 1972, they barely recognized their son. The boy who escaped to America with them, who was bullied as he struggled to learn English and cope with family tragedy, was now a young man who had discovered and secretly honed his basketball talent on the outdoor courts of New York City. That young man was Ernie Grunfeld, who would go on to win an Olympic gold medal and reach previously unimaginable heights as an NBA player and executive. In By the Grace of the Game, Dan Grunfeld, once a basketball standout himself at Stanford University, shares the remarkable story of his family, a delicately interwoven narrative that doesn't lack in heartbreak yet remains as deeply nourishing as his grandmother's Hungarian cooking, so lovingly described. The true improbability of the saga lies in the discovery of a game that unknowingly held the power to heal wounds, build bridges, and tie together a fractured Jewish family. If the magnitude of an American dream is measured by the intensity of the nightmare that came before and the heights of the triumph achieved after, then By the Grace of the Game recounts an American dream story of unprecedented scale. From the grips of the Nazis to the top of the Olympic podium, from the cheap seats to center stage at Madison Square Garden, from yellow stars to silver spoons, this complex tale traverses the spectrum of the human experience to detail how perseverance, love, and legacy can survive through generations, carried on the shoulders of a simple and beautiful game.

Download or read book Seventy Five written by Dave Heeren and published by Urlink Print & Media, LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features the NBA's statistical history, its all-time greatest teams and players, the best shooters, rebounders and playmakers. One chapter features statistical evidence that TENDEX was much more effective in rating players for the NBA draft than were the league's professional scouts. Book ends with a chart listing in order the 75 greatest players in NBA history.

Download or read book Boxed out of the NBA written by Syl Sobel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eastern Professional Basketball League (1946-78) was fast and physical, often played in tiny, smoke-filled gyms across the northeast and featuring the best players who just couldn’t make the NBA—many because of unofficial quotas on Black players, some because of scandals, and others because they weren’t quite good enough in the years when the NBA had less than 100 players. In Boxed out of the NBA: Remembering the Eastern Professional Basketball League, Syl Sobel and Jay Rosenstein tell the fascinating story of a league that was a pro basketball institution for over 30 years, showcasing top players from around the country. During the early years of professional basketball, the Eastern League was the next-best professional league in the world after the NBA. It was home to big-name players such as Sherman White, Jack Molinas, and Bill Spivey, who were implicated in college gambling scandals in the 1950s and were barred from the NBA, and top Black players such as Hal “King” Lear, Julius McCoy, and Wally Choice, who could not make the NBA into the early 1960s due to unwritten team quotas on African-American players. Featuring interviews with some 40 former Eastern League coaches, referees, fans, and players—including Syracuse University coach Jim Boeheim, former Temple University coach John Chaney, former Detroit Pistons player and coach Ray Scott, former NBA coach and ESPN analyst Hubie Brown, and former NBA player and coach Bob Weiss—this book provides an intimate, first-hand account of small-town professional basketball at its best.