![]() | The Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam
Buy used from: $2.88 The best sports writer taking on the best sport.
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![]() | Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made by David Halberstam
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.23 The best sports writer taking on the best the game has ever seen.
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![]() | Fab Five: Basketball, Trash Talk, The American Dream by Mitch Albom
Buy used from: $14.97 Albom captures the intrigue surrounding this history-making team that went to the championship game starting five freshman.
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![]() | Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns by Jack McCallum
Buy used from: $4.37 A funny, fast-paced, season-long diary of the team that breathed life back into the NBA.
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![]() | Tip-Off: How the 1984 NBA Draft Changed Basketball Forever by Filip Bondy
Buy used from: $3.49 Outstanding account of the 1984 NBA Draft when Jordan was taken, as well as Olajawon, Barkley, and Stockton. Supplies context to Portland's pick of Sam Bowie. A great story that changed the NBA forever.
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![]() | YAO: A Life in Two Worlds by Yao Ming
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $0.01 What makes this Yao Ming book unique is his first-hand recounting of the events that brought him to the United States and his rookie season with Houston.
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![]() | The Punch: One Night, Two Lives, and the Fight That Changed Basketball Forever by John Feinstein
Buy used from: $1.90 Basketball provides the background to this story that weaves themes of redemption and forgiveness in the lives of two extraordinary men.
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![]() | The GOLDEN BOYS by Stauth
Buy used from: $28.42 The story of the greatest basketball team ever assembled told from the vantage point of a sports writer covering the team. Provides insight as well as analysis The Dream Team
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![]() | FreeDarko presents The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac: Styles, Stats, and Stars in Today's Game by Bethlehem Shoals
Buy new: $15.64 / Used from: $8.99 Fantastic art of several NBA stars decorates this unconventional look at professional absketball. It's must-have resource that will turn the game you thought you knew upside down.
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![]() | NBA at 50 by Mark Vancil
Buy used from: $0.60 This value of this book is its wonderful pictures that profile the 50 greatest NBA players. This is an over-sized coffee table book, which makes the color, glossy photos even better. The cherry on top is David Halberstam writes the foreword.
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![]() | Clyde Drexler: Clyde the Glide by Clyde Drexler
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $0.01 Trail Blazer fans will be the ones most interested in this book, however stories from his Phi Slamma Jamma days as well as his championship with the Rockets is great reading.
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![]() | Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich by Mark Kriegel
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $2.75 |
![]() | The Big O: My Life, My Times, My Game by Oscar Robertson
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $1.09 |
![]() | Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association by Terry Pluto
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.49 |
![]() | Last Dance: Behind the Scenes at the Final Four by John Feinstein
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![]() | Outrageous!: The Fine Life and Flagrant Good Times of Basketball's Irresistible Force by Charles Barkley
Buy used from: $0.01 Entertaining and insightful, Outrageous is Barkley unfiltered. It combines recounts hilarious moments of trash-talking (to B. Laimbeer), and humbling regrets (inadvertantly spitting on a little girl). Barkley fans will love it.
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![]() | Rip City!: A Quarter Century With the Portland Trail Blazers by Steve Cameron
Buy used from: $0.98 The book is a fantasitic pictoral history of the first 25 years of the Portland Trail Blazers. There is some writing to tell the story that goes along with the pictures, but the photos from Adelman's playing days, to the championship team, to the Final's teams of the early 90's is the reason to get this book.
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![]() | Wilt, 1962: The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era by Gary M. Pomerantz
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $2.25 |
![]() | Sixth Man, The: A Season Inside the NBA Playground by Chris Palmer
Buy used from: $0.01 |
![]() | The Pivotal Season: How the 1971--72 Los Angeles Lakers Changed the NBA by Charley Rosen
Buy used from: $2.27 |
![]() | Operation Yao Ming: The Chinese Sports Empire, American Big Business, and the Making of an NBA Superstar by Brook Larmer
Buy used from: $0.06 |
![]() | Hang Time: Days And Dreams With Michael Jordan by Bob Greene
Buy used from: $0.01 |
![]() | The Franchise: Building a Winner With the World Champion Detroit Pistons, Basketballs Bad Boys by Cameron Stauth
Buy used from: $0.50 |
![]() | Shaq Attaq! 1993 1st Edition by Shaquille O'Neal
Buy used from: $10.71 |
![]() | Spinning the Globe: The Rise, Fall, and Return to Greatness of the Harlem Globetrotters by Ben Green
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $0.01 |
![]() | Nothing but Net: Just Give Me the Ball and Get Out of the Way by Bill Walton
Buy used from: $0.01 |
![]() | To The Brink: Stockton Malone And The Utah Jazzs Climb To The Edge Of Glory by Michael Lewis
Buy used from: $0.64 |
![]() | Ain't No Tomorrow : Kobe, Shaq, and the Making of a Lakers Dynasty by Elizabeth Kaye
Buy used from: $0.01 |
![]() | America's Dream Team: The 1992 USA Basketball Team by Chuck Daly
Buy used from: $0.48 This book is loaded with fantastic pictures that take the reader from the Tournament of the Americas in Portland to the Gold Medal ceremony in Barcelona. However, the pictures are not the only selling point. Coach Chuck Daily's narrative adds to the story, although the pictures are the reason get this book.
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![]() | Show Time: Inside the Lakers' Breakthrough Season by Pat Riley
Buy used from: $0.01 Before Riley was known for his grind-the-game-to-a-halt Knicks teams of the 90's, he was all about the fastbreaking of Show Time L.A. basketball of the 80's. This book tells the story of the championships of early in that decade. Great insight from one of the greatest basketball minds.
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![]() | The Long, Hot Winter: A Year in the Life of the Portland Trail Blazers by Rick Adelman
Buy used from: $0.19 This book about the Portland Trail Blazers recounts the 1989-90 season when the team lost in the Final's to the Isaih Thomas-led Detroit Pistons.
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![]() | Against the World: A Behind-The-Scenes Look at the Portland Trail Blazers' Chase for the Nba Championship by Kerry Eggers
Buy used from: $0.17 This book about the Portland Trail Blazers recounts the team's 1991-92 season when the Drexler-led Blazers lost in the Finals to the Jordan-led Bulls.
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![]() | Shaq Impaq by Bruce Hunter
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![]() | The pride of Portland: The story of the Trail Blazers by Frank Coffey
Buy used from: $4.34 |
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