Monday, February 15, 2016

NBA/Basketball Books I Have Read

1* I Grew Up with Basketball, 1952 & 2012
2* 50 Years of Basketball, 1968
3* 24 Seconds to Shoot, 1968 & 1999
4* Life on the Run, 1976 & 1995
5* Hondo: Celtic Man in Motion, 1977
6* The Short Season: A Boston Celtics Diary, 1977-1978, 1979
7* The Breaks of the Game, 1981
8* Giant Steps: The Autobiography of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 1983
9* Drive: The Story of My Life, 1989
10* Svět dlouhánů (World of Big Men), 1989
11* Cages to Jump Shots: Pro Basketball's Early Years, 1990
12* Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association, 1990
13* The Franchise: Building a Winner With the World Champion Detroit Pistons, Basketballs Bad Boys, 1990 
14* A View from Above, 1991
15* Tall Tales: The Glory Years of the NBA, in the Words of the Men Who Played, Coached, and Built Pro Basketball, 1992
16* Unfinished Business: On and Off the Court with the 1990-91 Boston Celtics, 1992
17* My Life, 1992
18* The Jordan Rules, 1992
19* Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior, 1995
20* Living the Dream: My Life and Basketball, 1995
21* Bad as I Wanna Be, 1996
22* NBA: Historie a současnost (NBA: Past and Present), 1998
23* Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made, 1999
24* Unguarded: My Forty Years Surviving in the NBA, 2000
25* At the Buzzer! Havlicek Steals, Erving Soars, Magic Deals, Michael Scores!, 2001
26* Shaq Talks Back, 2001
27* Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure, 2002
28* I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It, 2002
29* NBA's Greatest: The NBA's Best Players, Teams, and Games, 2003
30* Total Basketball: The Ultimate Basketball Encyclopedia, 2003
31* The Big O: My Life, My Times, My Game, 2003
32* Chocolate Thunder: The Uncensored Life and Time of Darryl Dawkins, 2003
33* Let Me Tell You a Story: A Lifetime in the Game, 2004
34* Wilt: Larger Than Life, 2004
35* The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul, 2004
36* Basketbalový světoběžník (Basketball Globetrotter), 2005
37* The Show: The Inside Story of the Spectacular Los Angeles Lakers in the Words of Those Who Lived It, 2005
38* Lapchick: The Life of a Legendary Player and Coach in the Glory Days of Basketball, 2006 & 2016
39* Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns, 2006
40* The Basketball Book, 2007
41* Pistol: The Life of Peter Maravich, 2007
42* The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac: Styles, Stats, and Stars in Today's Game, 2008
43* The First Tip-Off: The Incredible Story of the Birth of the NBA, 2008
44* The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy, 2009, & TBOB Updated, 2010
45* The Art of a Beautiful Game: The Thinking Fan's Tour of the NBA, 2009
46* When the Game Was Ours, 2009
47* The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History, 2010
48* King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution, 2010
49* Shaq Uncut: My Story, 2011
50* When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks, 2011
51* West by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life, 2011
52* Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever, 2012
53* Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success, 2013
54* Dr. J: The Autobiography, 2013
55* Assisted: An Autobiography, 2013
56* Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, 2014
57* Michael Jordan: The Life, 2014
58* Facing Michael Jordan: Players Recall the Greatest Basketball Player Who Ever Lived, 2014
59* Nebáli se své odvahy (Were Not Afraid of Their Courage), 2014
60* Basketball's Greatest, 2014
61* Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson, 2015
62* Drazen: The Remarkable Life and Legacy of the Mozart of Basketball, 2015
63* Got to Give the People What They Want: True Stories and Flagrant Opinions from Center Court, 2015
64* Elgin Baylor: The Man Who Changed Basketball, 2015
65* Boys Among Men: How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution, 2016
66* Back from the Dead, 2016
67* The Curse: The Colorful & Chaotic History of the LA Clippers, 2016
68* Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant, 2016
69* Furious George: My Forty Years Surviving NBA Divas, Clueless GMs, and Poor Shot Selection, 2017
70* Return of the King: LeBron James, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Greatest Comeback in NBA History, 2017
71* Hard Labor: The Battle That Birthed the Billion-Dollar NBA, 2017
72* Golden Days: West's Lakers, Steph's Warriors, and the California Dreamers Who Reinvented Basketball, 2017
73* Game Face: A Lifetime of Hard-Earned Lessons On and Off the Basketball Court, 2017
74* We Changed the Game, 2017
75* The Soul of Basketball: The Epic Showdown Between LeBron, Kobe, Doc, and Dirk That Saved the NBA, 2018
76* Basketball: A Love Story, 2018
77* Jail Blazers: How the Portland Trail Blazers Became the Bad Boys of Basketball, 2018
78* The Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End, 2018
79* SprawlBall: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA, 2019
80* The Czech Wizards: Jan Vesely and Tomas Satoransky's Wizards era, 2019
81* Československý John Havlicek (Czechoslovak John Havlicek), 2019
82* Slam Dunk: The True Story of Basketball's First Olympic Gold Medal Team, 2019
83* MPLS: The Minneapolis Lakers and the Dawn of Professional Basketball, 2019
84* Tanking to the Top: The Philadelphia 76ers and the Most Audacious Process in the History of Professional Sports, 2020
85* Šestí na světě (Sixth in the World), 2020
86* Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty, 2020
87* We the North: 25 Years of the Toronto Raptors, 2020
88* The Big Three: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and the Rebirth of the Boston Celtics, 2020
89* Tony Parker: Beyond All of My Dreams, 2020
90* From Hang Time to Prime Time: Business, Entertainment, and the Birth of the Modern-Day NBA, 2020
91* The James Naismith Reader: Basketball in His Own Words, 2021
92* KG A to Z: An Uncensored Encyclopedia of Life, Basketball, and Everything in Between, 2021
93* Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP, 2021 
94* Dynasties: The 10 G.O.A.T. Teams That Changed the NBA Forever, 2021
95* Dwyane, 2021
96* The Great Nowitzki: Basketball and the Meaning of Life, 2022
97* Barkley: A Biography, 2022
98* The Last Enforcer: Outrageous Stories from the Life and Times of One of the NBA's Fiercest Competitors, 2022
99* Basketbal: Velký americký příběh (Basketball: Great American Story), 2022
100* LeBron, 2023
101* Stanislav Kily Kropilák: Hral (som) aj žil naplno (Stanislav Kily Kropilak: (I) Played and Lived All Out), 2023

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