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🏀 Celebrate March Madness with these basketball books 🏀
Updated January 23, 2025
Westchester Library System
Mount Pleasant Public Library
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The legends club : Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and the story of an epic college basketball rivalry
Feinstein, John.
Paper Book
The riveting inside story of college basketball's fiercest rivalry among three coaching legends--University of North Carolina's Dean Smith, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, and North Carolina State's Jim Valvano--by the king of college basketball writers, #1 New York Times bestseller John Feinstein...
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Canyon dreams : a basketball season on the Navajo Nation
Powell, Michael
Paper Book
The inspiration for the Netflix film Rez Ball--produced by Lebron James The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native...
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When March went mad : the game that transformed basketball
Davis, Seth.
Paper Book
The dramatic story of how two legendary players burst on the scene in an NCAA championship that gave birth to modern basketball Thirty years ago, college basketball was not the sport we know today. Few games were televised nationally and the NCAA tournament had just expanded from thirty-two to forty...
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Bleeding orange : fifty years of blind referees, screaming fans, beasts of the East, and Syracuse basketball
Boeheim, Jim
Paper Book
In this candid autobiography, Syracuse head coach and long time college basketball fixture Jim Boeheim reflects on his life, his teachers, and the game he loves. Jim Boeheim walked onto the Syracuse campus as a freshman in 1963 . . . and never walked off. A man who has been written off at...
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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Abdurraqib, Hanif 1983-
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A "powerful" (The Guardian) reflection on basketball, life, and home--from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America "Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original...
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When the game was ours
Bird, Larry 1956-
Paper Book
The New York Times bestseller from Hall of Fame basketball legends Larry Bird and Earvin Magic Johnson. From the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physical and psychological battle. Their uncommonly competitive relationship...
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Bubbleball : inside the NBA's fight to save a season
Golliver, Ben
Paper Book
A captivating account of the NBA's strangest season ever, from shutdown to championship, from a prominent national basketball writer living inside the bubble When NBA player Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19 in March 2020, the league shut down immediately, bringing a...
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Coach Wooden and me our 50-year friendship on and off the court
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem 1947-
Paper Book
Former NBA star and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores his 50-year friendship with Coach John Wooden, one of the most enduring and meaningful relationships in sports history. When future NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was still an 18-year-old...
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Play their hearts out : a coach, his star recruit, and the youth basketball machine
Dohrmann, George.
Paper Book
"A tour de force of reporting" (The Washington Post) from a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist that examines the often-corrupt machine producing America's basketball stars "Indispensable."-The Wall Street Journal "Often heart-breaking, always...
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Betaball : how Silicon Valley and science built one of the greatest basketball teams in history
Malinowski, Erik
Paper Book
Moneyball meets The City Game in this compelling look at how the NBA champion Golden State Warriors embraced savvy business practices, next-gen science, and the corporate culture of Silicon Valley to not only produce one of the greatest basketball teams in history but also...
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Perfectly awful : the Philadelphia 76ers' horrendous and hilarious 1972-1973 season
Rosen, Charles.
Paper Book
During the 1972-1973 basketball season, the Philadelphia 76ers were not just a bad team; they were fantastically awful. Doomed from the start after losing their leading scorer and rebounder, Billy Cunningham, as well as head coach Jack Ramsay, they lost twenty-one of their first twenty-three...
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Sacred hoops : the spiritual lessons of a hardwood warrior
Jackson, Phil.
Paper Book
Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson shares his experience of combining sports and spirituality to lead his team to success, explaining how to nurture a positive group dynamic and detailing the methods he uses to teach his players how to think collectively, overcome anger, and look beyond jealousy....
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