num_pages: 736
description: There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to write the definitive book on the NBA.* Bill Simmons the from-the-womb hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.coms Sports Guy is that writer. And The Book of Basketball is that book.Nowhere in the roundball universe will you find another single volume that covers as much in such depth as this wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining look at the past present and future of pro basketball.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 opensand then closes once and for allevery 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 Simmonss 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 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 games finest funniest and fiercest chronicler.* More to the point hes the only one crazy enough to try to pull it off.
language: English
title: The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
publisher: ESPN