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"They were the Beatles of basketball, the Mercury Seven in sneakers. In Dream Team, acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men's Basketball Team that captivated the world, kindled the hoop dreams of countless children around the planet, and remade the NBA into a global sensation. As a senior staff writer for Sports Illustrated, McCallum enjoyed a courtside seat...
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"African Americans were making moves in basketball generations before the rise of the NBA. Their pioneering efforts helped popularize the sport in big cities and small towns alike and shaped the game we know and love today. From the invention of the game in 1891 to the racial integration of all-White professional leagues int he 1950s, dozens of teams -- then often called "fives" -- of African American players were founded and flourished. This was...
5) The back roads to March: the unsung, unheralded, and unknown heroes of a college basketball season
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"John Feinstein has already taken readers into the inner circles of top college basketball programs in The Legends Club. This time, Feinstein pulls back the curtain on college basketball's lesser-known Cinderella stories -- the smaller programs who no one expects to win, who have no chance of attracting the most coveted high school recruits, who rarely send their players on to the NBA. Feinstein follows a handful of players, coaches, and schools who...
10) Sacramento Kings
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"Take a courtside seat to the chronicle of the Sacramento Kings pro basketball team, starting with its 1945 founding. Jump into the NBA action as you read about the Kings' hard-fought 1951 NBA Finals win and team legends such as Chris Webber and Oscar Robertson."-- Cover.
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"Take a courtside seat to the chronicle of the Philadelphia 76ers pro basketball team, starting with its 1946 founding. Jump into the NBA action as you read about the 76ers' three NBA Finals wins and team legends such as Julius Erving and Allen Iverson." -- Cover.
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"Take a courtside seat to the chronicle of the San Antonio Spurs pro basketball team, starting with its 1967 founding. Jump into the NBA action as you read about the Spurs' five NBA Finals wins and team legends such as David Robinson and Tim Duncan." -- Cover.
16) Houston Rockets
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"Take a courtside seat to the chronicle of the Houston Rockets pro basketball team, starting with its 1967 founding. Jump into the NBA action as you read about the Rockets' back-to-back NBA Finals wins and team legends such as Hakeem Olajuwon and James Harden." -- Cover.
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"Take a courtside seat to the chronicle of the Oklahoma City Thunder pro basketball team, starting with its 1967 founding. Jump into the NBA action as you read about the Thunder's 1979 NBA Finals win and team legends such as Gary Payton and Kevin Durant." -- Cover.
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"In MIRACLES ON THE HARDWOOD, author John Gasaway traces the rise of Catholic college basketball - from its early days (Villanova made an appearance in the Final Four in the first NCAA tournament in 1939) to the dominance of the San Franciso Dons in the 1950s and the ascendance of powerhouses Georgetown, Villanova, and Gonzaga-through their decades-long rivalries and championship games. Featuring interviews with notable coaches, players, alums, and...
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"Through 100 evocative, often stunning photographs, as well as the stories that accompany them, Sports Illustrated visits the great arc of basketball history. Featuring historical coverage and vivid photography covering the men's, women's, and college games, basketball's rich and remarkable history is here. Unforgettable events live in a continuum with stirring photos of the game’s most beloved and largest personalities such as Michael Jordan, LeBron...
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"One. Two. Three. That's as long as it took to sear the souls of a dozen young American men, thanks to the craziest, most controversial finish in the history of the Olympics -- the 1972 gold-medal basketball contest between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's two superpowers at the time. The U.S. team, whose unbeaten Olympic streak dated back to when Adolf Hitler reigned over the Berlin Games, believed...
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