NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The NBA according to The Sports Guy--now
updated with fresh takes on LeBron, the Celtics, and more!
Foreword by Malcom Gladwell - "The work of a true fan . . . it might
just represent the next phase of sports commentary."--The Atlantic
Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining
basketball addict known to millions as ESPN's The Sports Guy, has
written the definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA.
From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill
Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the
best of all time, Simmons opens--and then closes, once and for
all--every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by
completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should
be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up,
the result being the Pyramid: Simmons's one-of-a-kind five-level shrine
to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And
ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a
conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The
Secret of Basketball.
Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible
to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers
every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game's finest, funniest,
and fiercest chronicler.
