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41) Lebron James
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Growing up in Akron, Ohio, Lebron James had trouble fitting in, because he was constantly changing schools. He was able to focus on sports and school and was picked first in the 2003 NBA Draft. He has now won two NBA championships. The Quotes from the Greatest Athletes series profiles and celebrates successful athletes. Each book explores the inspirational words of a well-known athlete and provides an overview of the person's achievements.This is...
42) Michael Jordan
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Michael Jordan was not able to make his school's varsity basketball team in the tenth grade. He trained all year, and went on to be one of the best high school basketball players in the United States. He eventually won six NBA championships. The Quotes from the Greatest Athletes series profiles and celebrates successful athletes. Each book explores the inspirational words of a well-known athlete and provides an overview of the person's achievements....
43) Kobe Bryant
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"This biography gives readers a courtside seat to the achievements of one of basketball's greatest legends as it traces Kobe's life from childhood to his five NBA championships to his successful career outside of the game to his tragic death and lasting legacy."--Provided by publisher.
44) Michael Jordan
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Discusses the childhood, education, basketball career, and personal life of the Chicago Bulls star Michael Jordan.
46) He got game
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
A prisoner is granted a furlough in hopes of persuading his estranged son, the country's top high school basketball player, to attend the governor's alma mater.
48) Maya Moore
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"This title explores the life of Maya Moore, from her early days playing basketball to her triumphs at the highest level. The title also features informative sidebars, fun facts and quotes, a glossary, and further resources."--Publisher's website.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The true story of the high-flying Harlem Globetrotters -- the team that changed basketball forever. In this book you will find one-finger ball-spinning, rapid-fire mini-dribbling, and a ricochet head shot! You will find skilled athletes, expert players, and electrifying performers -- all rolled into one! You will find nonstop, give-it-all-you've-got, out-to-win-it, sky's-the-limit BASKETBALL! You will find The Harlem Globetrotters, who played...
50) Glory road
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Don Haskins, a future Hall of Fame coach of tiny Texas Western University, bucks convention by simply starting the best players he can find: history's first all-African American lineup.
51) Black ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the generation that saved the soul of the NBA
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Against the backdrop of ongoing massive resistance to racial desegregation and increasingly strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation's imagined descent into disorder. The press and the public blamed young Black players for the chaos in the NBA, citing drugs, violence, greed, and criminality. The supposed decline of pro basketball became a metaphor for the first decades of integration in America: the rules of the game...
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
In The Rivalry, award-winning journalist John Taylor projects the stories of Russell, Chamberlain, and other stars from the NBAs golden age onto a backdrop of racial tensions and cultural change. Taylors electrifying account of two complex menas well as of a game and a country at a crossroads is an epic narrative of sports in America during the 1960s. Its hard to imagine two characters better suited to leading roles in the NBA saga: Chamberlain was...
54) Coming home
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"From the nine-time women's basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist--a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women's basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested...
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