The Official NBA Basketball Encyclopedia (3rd Edition) Book PDF, ePub eBook

Join our eBook service for unlimited books & audiobooks. Get a free 7 day subscription! ↓↓↓↓↓


Book Descriptions:
On December 12, 1891, 13 rules of a new game were posted in a YMCA gym in Springfield, Massachusetts. At each end of the floor, Dr. James A. Naismith, who had invented the game, had peach baskets nailed below a walkway that happened to be 10-feet high. Within a few days, one of Naismith's students would christen the new game "Basket Ball."

Over a century ago, no one could possibly have envisioned the extraordinary changes that were going to transform Dr. Naismith's game. Who could have imagined a 6-10 George Mikan swatting shots away from the basket? Julius Erving in flight, soaring in from the free throw line for a heart-stopping stuff? Or Bob Cousy throwing a mind-boggling no-look, behind-the-back pass; Jerry West hitting a 60-foot shot with no time left in a crucial playoff game; Larry Bird's three-point prowess and Michael Jordan rising to heights - literally and figuratively - never before seen by any athlete? Who could have foreseen more than 62,000 fans crowded into the Georgia Dome to see a game between the Chicago Bulls and Atlanta Hawks? Or the titanic battles between Wilt and Russell? Or the Dream Team? The longevity of Stockton and Malone? Red Auerbach's victory cigars? Phil Jackson's Zen coaching? Or Shaquille O'Neal's powerful dunks? Who could have ever predicted talent like Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley, Walt Frazier, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Grant Hill, Vince Carter, Jason Kidd, Allen Iverson, and Kobe Bryant?

With an Introduction by NBA Commissioner David J. Stern and a Foreword by Michael Jordan, this third edition of The Official NBA Encyclopedia captures it all: The past and the present. The complete stats and the complex personalities. Dynasties, rivalries, coaches, referees, all the pre-NBA leagues, vignettes and features by the top basketball writers in the world. Every NBA season is reviewed and individual statistics are provided for every player who has ever played in the league. An extraordinary 32-page color photo essay that captures the spirit of the game since Naismith conceived it opens this encyclopedia in an unprecedented and spectacular manner.

From the peach basket to the slam dunk championship - it's all here in The Official NBA Encyclopedia, a book that's almost as exciting as a triple overtime seventh game of the NBA Finals.

The Official NBA Basketball Encyclopedia (3rd Edition) by National Basketball Association

From reader reviews:

Debra Yarbrough:

What do you with regards to book? It is not important with you? Or just adding material when you really need something to explain what the ones you have problem? How about your free time? Or are you busy individual? If you don't have spare time to perform others business, it is make one feel bored faster. And you have extra time? What did you do? Every individual has many questions above. They have to answer that question simply because just their can do that. It said that about reserve. Book is familiar on every person. Yes, it is suitable. Because start from on kindergarten until university need this particular The Official NBA Basketball Encyclopedia (3rd Edition) to read.

Carole Garner:

Spent a free a chance to be fun activity to do! A lot of people spent their spare time with their family, or their very own friends. Usually they doing activity like watching television, gonna beach, or picnic inside the park. They actually doing same thing every week. Do you feel it? Would you like to something different to fill your free time/ holiday? Could be reading a book may be option to fill your free time/ holiday. The first thing that you ask may be what kinds of book that you should read. If you want to consider look for book, may be the reserve untitled The Official NBA Basketball Encyclopedia (3rd Edition) can be good book to read. May be it may be best activity to you.

Walter Dion:

Is it you actually who having spare time in that case spend it whole day by simply watching television programs or just lying down on the bed? Do you need something totally new? This The Official NBA Basketball Encyclopedia (3rd Edition) can be the reply, oh how comes? It's a book you know. You are thus out of date, spending your extra time by reading in this brand-new era is common not a nerd activity. So what these textbooks have than the others?

Mary Craine:

Reading a publication make you to get more knowledge from that. You can take knowledge and information from the book. Book is written or printed or outlined from each source in which filled update of news. Within this modern era like today, many ways to get information are available for anyone. From media social just like newspaper, magazines, science reserve, encyclopedia, reference book, book and comic. You can add your knowledge by that book. Are you hip to spend your spare time to spread out your book? Or just looking for the The Official NBA Basketball Encyclopedia (3rd Edition) when you desired it?