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"While Hanif Abdurraqib is an acclaimed author, a gifted poet, and one of our culture's most insightful music critics, he is most of all, at heart, an Ohioan. Growing up in Columbus in the '90s, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron were forged, and countless others weren't. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make...
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Acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men's Basketball Team that captivated the world, kindled the hoop dreams of countless children around the planet, and remade the NBA into a global sensation. As a senior staff writer for Sports Illustrated, McCallum enjoyed a courtside seat for the most exciting basketball spectacle on earth, covering the Dream Team from its...
5) Foul trouble
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"College recruiters are clambering to sign up Terrell Jamerson, the #1 high school basketball player in the country. But not all of these recruiters are straight shooters, and Terrell will have to think fast if he wants to stay in the game"--
6) Play makers
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Game changers volume 2
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Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Still living large off their incredible football championship win just weeks before, Ben McBain and his crew must now prepare for basketball season. Ben is known as the best point guard throughout the league. And now that Shawn O'Brien has joined their team, they are a shoo-in to win it all. But there is a new kid in town, Chase Braggs, a point guard like Ben who seems to be better, stronger, and faster. Refusing to let his team down, Ben hits the...
7) Outside shot
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Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"Richie Mallon has always known he was a shooter. Now that he is facing basketball tryouts under a tough new coach, will his amazing shooting talent be enough to keep him on the team?"--
9) Basketball
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English
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Presents a comprehensive history of the game of basketball and includes full-color and vintage photographs of early teams and players along with information on equipment and uniforms used over the decades, stadiums, and the birth of the NBA.
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 16
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Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, he's officially retired. But after his mom urges him to give sports one more chance, he reluctantly agrees to sign up for basketball. Tryouts are a mess, and Greg is sure he won't make the cut. But he unexpectedly lands a spot on the worst team. As Greg and his new teammates start the season, their chances of winning even a single game look...
11) The way back
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Years after walking away from a college basketball scholarship, an alcoholic man is asked to return to his former high school as a basketball coach.
12) LeBron
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2023.
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English
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Presents a definitive biography of one of the greatest athletes of all time that chronicles not only LeBron James' meteoric rise to fame but also his solid family, political activism, and business empire.
13) Sooley
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English
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After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called...
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The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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The head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers traces the life experiences and philosophies that inspired his six-time championship-wining techniques, citing his relationships with such players as Michael Jordan, Dennis Rodman and Kobe Bryant while revealing how he forged successful teams by combining talents and promoting trust.
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"The definitive biography of college basketball's all-time winningest coach, Mike Krzyzewski. Mike Krzyzewski, known worldwide as "Coach K," is a five-time national champion at Duke, the NCAA's all-time leader in victories with nearly 1,200, and the first man to lead Team USA to three Olympic basketball gold medals. Through unprecedented access to Krzyzewski's best friends, closest advisers, fiercest adversaries, and generations of his players and...
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HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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A fast-break drama series chronicling the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of the sportsâ‚‚ most revered and dominant dynasties a team that defined its era, both on and off the court. The series examines one of the professional sports' most beloved empires and experience the exhilarating ride of a team that dominated a decade of basketball and watches them not only achieve iconic status but transforms the sport...
18) True legend
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Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Drew "True" Robinson loves being the best point-guard prospect in high school basketball, but learns the consequences of fame through a former player, as well as through the man who expects to be his manager when True reaches the NBA.
20) Remember us
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2023.
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English
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"The summer before seventh grade, as the constant threat of housefires looms over her Brooklyn neighborhood, basketball-loving Sage is trying to figure out her place in her circle of friends, when a new kid named Freddy moves in."--