From 1892 when students of basketball inventor Dr. James A. Naismith
brought the game to Minnesota to the latest seasons of the Timberwolves,
Lynx, and Golden Gophers, Minnesota Hoops is the definitive history of
the state's most-played sport. Marc Hugunin and Stew Thornley travel
through the years to offer little-known facts and thrilling stories of
the games, the courts, the personalities, and the plays.
Sit courtside as center George Mikan leads the Minneapolis Lakers to win
six league championships in seven years. Follow the stories of early
barnstorming and YMCA teams, with players as passionate about the win as
those with multimillion-dollar contracts are today. Watch in awe as
Gopher women's superstar Lindsay Whalen dominates the court with spirit
and finesse. Discover friends and family in the season-by-season records
of girls' and boys' state high school tournaments. Triumph with the Lynd
high school state tournament winners of '46, hayloft hoopsters who
practiced in a barn. Rise to the top with Kevin Garnett as he signs with
the Timberwolves at eighteen, then is named the NBA's MVP at
twenty-seven.
In Minnesota Hoops Hugunin and Thornley present all the facts and bust
longstanding myths to offer an unparalleled history of the sport that
they love for hardcore fans and novices alike.