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For more than two decades, legendary trainer Tim Grover has taken the greats—Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, and hundreds of relentless competitors in sports, business, and every walk of life—and made them greater. Now, for the first time ever, he reveals what it takes to achieve total mental and physical dominance, showing you how to be relentless and achieve whatever you desire. Direct, blunt, and brutally honest, Grover breaks down what it takes to be unstoppable: you keep going...

Releasedatum: 2013-04-16 € 15,99

The Mamba Mentality: How I Play is Kobe Bryant’s personal perspective of his life and career on the basketball court and his exceptional, insightful style of playing the game—a fitting legacy from the late Los Angeles Laker superstar. In the wake of his retirement from professional basketball, Kobe “The Black Mamba” Bryant decided to share his vast knowledge and understanding of the game to take readers on an unprecedented journey to the core of the legendary “Mamba mentality.” Citin...

Releasedatum: 2018-10-23 € 14,99

The New York Times Bestseller Updated With a New Introduction. In The Jordan Rules: The Inside Story of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, former Chicago Tribune sports writer and current Bulls.com contributor Sam Smith chronicles the excitement and tension of the Chicago Bulls' first championship season, and presents a fascinating eyewitness account of Michael Jordan on and off the court.   Updated with a new introduction by Smith describing his experiences covering the Bulls to capture...

Releasedatum: 2012-07-26 € 6,99

Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell   Newly updated with fresh takes on LeBron, Kobe, the Celtics & more* *Including even more footnotes! Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.com’s 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,...

Releasedatum: 2009-10-27 € 12,99

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   Acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team. As a writer for Sports Illustrated, McCallum enjoyed a courtside seat for the most exciting basketball spectacle on earth, covering the Dream Team from its inception to the gold medal ceremony in Barcelona. Drawing on fresh interviews with the players, McCallum provides the definitive account of the Dream Team phe...

Releasedatum: 2012-07-10 € 4,49

Thirty years after Michael Jordan’s first NBA game comes an oral history of his legendary career, told by the men who played with him and against him, coached him, and witnessed first-hand the iconic greatness of the most dominant athlete sports has ever seen. Featuring interviews with: Larry Bird • Magic Johnson • Phil Jackson • Reggie Miller • Isiah Thomas • Reggie Theus • Chris Mullin • Doug Collins • Dominique Wilkins • Steve Kerr • John Paxson • David Stern • Gregg...

Releasedatum: 2014-10-28 € 6,99

Skills & Techniques by Coach Ernie Woods. The world's most complete guide to disruptive basketball defense fundamentals. For coaches, players and die-hard fans. Includes chapters on Defensive Stops, Disruptive Pressure, On Ball Defense, Off Ball Defense, Helpside Defense, Post Defense, Defensive Rebounding, On Ball Screens, Off Ball Screens, Season Preparation, A Coaches Guide: 5 Days to Sound Defense, and much more. Graphically illustrated with hundreds of diagrams in full color. From HoopT...

Releasedatum: 2011-10-06 € 4,99

“I want to start conversations, and even better, arguments.” – From the Introduction   One of the most outspoken and original voices in sports sounds off while revealing his incredible life story.   Jalen Rose has never been quiet.  Not as a kid growing up in Detroit in the 70’s and 80’s.  Not as the brash, trash-talking leader of the legendary “Fab Five” at the University of Michigan.  Not as the player under the stewardship of Hall of Famers Larry Bird, I...

Releasedatum: 2015-10-06 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 10,99

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1. Proud storyteller - Listening to his podcast I already knew Jalen is a great storyteller. Although I already knew quote some stories it was great reading them again and complete. And with context. I liked the parts about his community and giving back to it the most. Jalen is a strong advocate of doing so which is an inspiration. Keep it up J!
2015-10-12

The New York Times bestselling author of Sweetness delivers the first all-encompassing account of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of professional sports’ most-revered — and dominant — dynasties.   The Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s personified the flamboyance and excess of the decade over which they reigned. Beginning with the arrival of Earvin “Magic” Johnson as the number-one overall pick of the 1979 draft, the Lakers played basketball with gusto and pizzazz, unleashing their...

Releasedatum: 2014-03-04 € 11,99

An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits!). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007 national championship game. You would think Titus would be all over the highlight reels. You'd be wrong.   In 2006, Mark Titus arrived on Ohio State's campus as a former high school basketball player who aspired to be an orth...

Releasedatum: 2012-03-06 € 7,99

A New York Times bestseller, David Halberstam's The Breaks of the Game focuses on one grim season (1979-80) in the life of the Bill Walton-led Portland Trail Blazers, a team that only three years before had been NBA champions. More than six years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life and history in the years since WWII. A Pulitzer Prize-winner for his groundbreaking reporting on the Vietnam War, Halberst...

Releasedatum: 2012-07-17 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 2,99

Charles Barkley has never been shy about expressing his opinions. Michael Jordan once said that we all want to say the things that Barkley says, but we don’t dare. But even die-hard followers of the all-time NBA great, the star of TNT’s Inside the NBA and CNN’s TalkBack Live , will be astonished by just how candid and provocative he is in this book—and just how big his ambitions are. Though he addresses weighty issues with a light touch and prefers to stir people to think by making them ...

Releasedatum: 2002-10-01 € 10,99

The easy way to get the ins, outs, and intrigue on this beloved sport The National Basketball Association (NBA), with 30 teams and an average attendance of more than 17,000 spectators per game, is the richest and most popular basketball league — and arguably the most viewed American sport — in the world. This new edition of Basketball For Dummies not only covers the rules and regulations of the NBA, but offers coverage on the WNBA, NCAA, and international basketball leagues. Basketball For D...

Releasedatum: 2011-09-19 € 16,99

The bestselling author of Dream Team tells the interconnected stories of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors and the early-1970s Los Angeles Lakers, two extraordinary teams playing in extraordinary times and linked by one extraordinary man: Jerry West. With an update on Jerry West’s new gig In Golden Days, acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum uses two teams—today’s Golden State Warriors and the L.A. Lakers of the early 1970s—to trace the dynamic history of the National Basketball...

Releasedatum: 2017-10-24 € 11,99

Welcome to triangle Offense of the Basketball Coachbook Series. In this series of eBooks we will look at a wide variety of basketball offensive plays and with the use of text, diagram, audio and video mediums to help explain the offense in its simplest form, so you can put it on the floor with your players quickly.

Releasedatum: 2016-11-16 € 0,99

Former NBA star and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores his 50-year friendship with Coach John Wooden, one of the most enduring and meaningful relationships in sports history. When future NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was still an 18-year-old high school basketball prospect from New York City named Lew Alcindor, he accepted a scholarship from UCLA largely on the strength of Coach John Wooden's reputation as a winner. It turned out to be the right choice, as Alci...

Releasedatum: 2017-05-16 € 2,99

Whether you are a new basketball coach or a seasoned veteran in the coaching ranks, Building a Better Basketball Program will help organize your thoughts, goals, and plans for each basketball season. From developing or tweaking your coaching philosophy to planning and scouting opponents, this book details a step by step plan that will enhance your total basketball program. In Building a Better Basketball Program, Coach Biddison takes you through each stage of basketball season that includes idea...

Releasedatum: 2014-08-31 € 2,99

“So, this is my story. The story of a Champ, who managed to escape Long Beach’s dark alleys and who, through receiving the appropriate directions, would find himself walking down the avenue of titles and success.  Through this book, I have tried to illustrate who Mike Batiste is, also beyond bounds. How I think, how I act; what makes me happy, what makes me sad; what thrills me and what inspires me, beyond four lines of a basketball court. I would like to believe, that you now have pure...

Releasedatum: 2013-11-20 € 9,99

More than a Game  covers the years  that follow  the one featured in the ESPN documentary series "The Last Dance." After leaving the Bulls at the end of the 1997-1998 season—the year featured in the new ESPN documentary series "The Last Dance"—Phil Jackson had one year off and started to write this book—together with his old friend, fellow player and coach, the basketball novelist Charley Rosen. Then Phil took the LA Lakers coaching job, Rosen followed him there, and by...

Releasedatum: 2001-04-03 € 13,99

The riveting story behind NBA giant Yao Ming, the ruthless Chinese sports machine that created him, and the East-West struggle over China’s most famous son. The NBA’s 7‘6" All-Star Yao Ming has changed the face of basketball, revitalizing a league desperate for a new hero while becoming a multimillionaire pitchman for Reebok and McDonald’s. But his journey to America—like that of his forgotten foil, 7‘1" Wang Zhizhi—began long before he set foot on the world’s brightest athletic ...

Releasedatum: 2005-11-03 € 4,49

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A SELECTION ON BARACK OBAMA’S SUMMER READING LIST The definitive history of the 1990s New York Knicks, illustrating how Pat Riley, Patrick Ewing, John Starks, Charles Oakley, and Anthony Mason resurrected the iconic franchise through oppressive physicality and unmatched grit. For nearly an entire generation, the New York Knicks have been a laughingstock franchise. Since 2001, they’ve spent more money, lost more games, and won fewer playoff series than any ot...

Releasedatum: 2022-01-18 € 16,99

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This unflinching “master class” ( The New York Times ) of a memoir from two-time Olympic gold medalist and NBA Hall of Famer reveals how Scottie Pippen, the youngest of twelve, overcame two family tragedies and universal disregard by college scouts to become an essential component of the greatest basketball dynasty of the last fifty years. Scottie Pippen has been called one of the greatest NBA players for good reason. Simply put, without Pippen, there are no...

Releasedatum: 2021-11-09 € 15,99

Howard Beck. Marc Stein. Jonathan Abrams. Chris Broussard. Ira Berkow. George Vecsey. Mike Wise. Selena Roberts. Lee Jenkins. All have graced the pages of The New York Times , entertaining readers with their probing coverage of the N.B.A.: a stage on which spectacular athletes perform against a backdrop of continuous social change. Now, their work and more is collected in a new volume, edited and annotated by Hall of Fame honoree Harvey Araton, tracing basketball's sustained boom from Magic and ...

Releasedatum: 2019-04-16 € 12,99

Whether it was helping Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls win three consecutive NBA titles in the 1990s, or showing up to a book signing in a dress and full makeup, Dennis Rodman has always distinguished himself as one of the great and most polarizing personalities in the sports world. The controversial and flamboyant former basketball star is back in the national spotlight once again with I Should Be Dead By Now. This riveting book from the two-time best-selling author details Rodman’s stru...

Releasedatum: 2013-02-19 € 12,99

From the New York Times bestselling author of Return of the King comes the story of LeBron James's incredible transformation from basketball star to sports and business mogul. With eight straight trips to the NBA Finals, LeBron James has proven himself one of the greatest basketball players of all time. And like Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan before him, LeBron has also become a global brand and businessman who has altered the way professional athletes think about their value, maximize their l...

Releasedatum: 2019-04-09 € 10,99

Metta World Peace knows what it means to be both the hero and the villain. In his 17-season professional basketball career, he's darted back and forth between extremes, taking on the roles of youthful phenom, league-wide disgrace, All-Star, unlikely international ambassador, and fan favorite. Along the way, there have been awards, teammate rifts, an NBA championship trophy, plus a name change or two. It's more than the guy born Ronald William Artest, Jr. might have imagined for himself a...

Releasedatum: 2018-05-15 € 10,99

In this e-Book we will look at a wide variety of basketball offensive plays and using text, diagram, audio and video mediums to help explain the offense in its simplest form, so you can put it on the floor with your players quickly. Offense plays within this book: 5 out , 4 out 1 in, Flex, Motion 32, Princeton, Horns down, Horns up, Triangle, Lakers Triangle

Releasedatum: 2016-07-03 € 3,49

Historia de la Generación Dorada del básquet argentino que con jugadores como Ginóbili, Scola, Oberto y Nocioni venció al Dream Team estadounidense, ganó los Juegos Olímpicos de Atenas 2004 y llegó a la cima del deporte mundial. Manu Ginóbili, Pepe Sánchez, Fabricio Oberto, Luis Scola, Andrés Nocioni, Hugo Sconochini, Alejandro Montecchia, Carlos Delfino, Walter Herrmann, Leonardo Gutiérrez, Rubén Wolkowyski, Gabriel Fernández, Lucas Victoriano, Leandro Palladino. Elegida por los ar...

Releasedatum: 2016-07-01 € 4,99

Explains the ins and outs of fast breaking into a secondary attack. Covers why you should run a transition game, fast-break player development drills, personnel characteristics and responsibilities, basic transition game, drills for teaching basic transition, secondary break, breakdown of shooting drills for the secondary break, transition defense and more. Dozens of easy-to-follow diagrams and descriptions.

Releasedatum: 2002-04-12 € 7,99

This is a workout program series based on the game and skills of NBA players, with written and video demonstrations of each drill and skill for you to follow step-by-step. Developed by YouTube star Dre Baldwin. 

Releasedatum: 2013-11-01 € 17,99

Find out how Mark Cuban went from flat broke and sleeping on beer-stained floors to fighting with officials in his seat by the Mav's bench. The Mavericks owner turned out to be exactly what the team needed as it made its way to be the 2011 NBA champs: An owner who keeps things interesting and makes good on his promises.

Releasedatum: 2012-03-22 € 2,99

As part of the acclaimed Sports Virtues series, John Wooden: Discipline discusses the struggles and triumphs of John Wooden's life. As with each story in the Sports Virtues series, this book assigns a virtue to a celebrated athlete or coach, and uses that person's story to help the reader achieve that virtue for him or herself. What emerges after reading these stories is not only a greater understanding and appreciation of the virtues that these icons needed to get through life, but also an insp...

Releasedatum: 2012-03-01 € 2,99

This enhanced eBook includes 3D animations of over 75 basketball-specific stretches and exercises. With this enhanced eBook you will be able to see exactly how the exercises are performed. The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Basketball is the most comprehensive and up-to-date basketball-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of nearly 100 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. Thi...

Releasedatum: 2012-02-12 € 11,99

In The Art of a Beautiful Game , Chris Ballard, the award-winning Sports Illustrated writer who has covered the NBA for the past decade, goes behind the scenes to examine basketball in ways that will surprise even die-hard fans. An inveterate hoops junkie who played some college ball, Ballard sits down with the NBA's most passionate, cerebral players to find out their tricks of the trade and to learn what drives them, taking readers away from the usual sports talk radio fodder and deep into the ...

Releasedatum: 2009-11-03 € 15,99

HE HAS TAKEN HIS GAME -- AND THE GAME -- TO A NEW LEVEL He grew up in Virginia with nothing but his talent and his heart. But he had The Plan: his never-say-die dream to become an NBA superstar. So he began his journey down a road full of obstacles. But the world underestimated Allen Iverson.... Fear No One From his first days playing college hoops...to his turbulent early years in the pros...to his leading the Philadelphia 76ers to the 2001 NBA Finals and being named league MVP, here is the rea...

Releasedatum: 2002-02-17 € 12,99

I have spent over a decade in manuscript development of this systematic process to produce superior results because of the observation that inept behavior still exists. This instructional manual has been the product of trial and error, NBA player investigation, anatomy research, self-examination, painstaking experiments, and a lifetime of interest in the game and studies in the field of psychology. Everything I tell you about the shot is important and the absolute truth despite who has told you ...

Releasedatum: 2023-01-16 € 11,99

The New York Times bestseller from Hall of Fame basketball legends Larry Bird and Earvin Magic Johnson. From the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physical and psychological battle. Their uncommonly competitive relationship came to symbolize the most compelling rivalry in the NBA. In Celtic green was Larry Bird, the hick from French Lick, with laser-beam focus, relentless determination, and a deadly jump shot, a player who demanded excellence fro...

Releasedatum: 2009-11-04 € 8,99

Darcy Frey chronicles the aspirations of four young men as they navigate the NCAA recruitment process, their only hope of escape from a life of crime, poverty, and despair. It ought to be just a game, but basketball on the playgrounds of Coney Island is much more than that. In The Last Shot, the aspirations of a few of the neighborhood's most promising players reveal that what they have going for them (athletic talent, grace, and years of dedication) may not be enough to defeat what's working ag...

Releasedatum: 2013-08-30 € 8,99

El Legado es la historia de un grupo de jugadores que le torció la mano al destino. Contado desde adentro por la excelente pluma de Germán Beder, narra las vivencias de la Selección Argentina desde el Preolímpico de México 2015 hasta la medalla de plata en el Mundial de China 2019, pasando por Río 2016, los retiros de Manu Ginóbili y Chapu Nocioni y mil historias que ocurrieron en el medio. Un libro imperdible para todos los que aman el deporte.

Releasedatum: 2021-02-10 € 9,49

This "part memoir, part sports story" ( Wall Street Journal ) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Big Bam chronicles the clash of NBA titans over seven riveting games—Celtics versus Lakers, Russell versus Chamberlain—covered by one young reporter. Welcome to the 1969 NBA Finals! They don’t set up any better than this. The greatest basketball player of all time - Bill Russell - and his juggernaut Boston Celtics, winners of ten ( ten! ) of the previous twelve NBA cham...

Releasedatum: 2021-07-13 € 11,99

 Journey "inside the numbers" for an exceptional set of statistical tools and rules that can help explain the winning, or losing, ways of a basketball team. Basketball on Paper doesn’t diagram plays or explain how players get in shape, but instead demonstrates how to interpret player and team performance. Dean Oliver highlights general strategies for teams when they’re winning or losing and what aspects should be the focus in either situation. He describes and quantifies the jobs of tea...

Releasedatum: 2003-11-01 € 16,99

Enter the City of Brotherly Love and see how the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers trusted The Process–using a bold plan to get to first by becoming the worst.  When a group of private equity bigwigs purchased the Philadelphia 76ers in 2011, the team was both bad and boring. Attendance was down. So were ratings. The Sixers had an aging coach, an antiquated front office, and a group of players that could best be described as mediocre.  Enter Sam Hinkie—a man with a plan straight out of the P...

Releasedatum: 2020-03-17 € 11,99

In 2012, Derrick Rose was on top of the world. After growing up in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, Rose achieved an improbable childhood dream: being selected first overall in the NBA draft by his hometown Chicago Bulls. The point guard known to his family as “Pooh” was a phenom, winning the Rookie of the Year award and electrifying fans around the world. In 2011, he became the youngest MVP in league history. He and the Bulls believed the city's first berth in the NBA Finals since the Jord...

Releasedatum: 2019-09-10 € 12,99

At a time when more high school and college coaches and players are studying the pro game to get an edge, top coaches from the National Basketball Association have assembled their knowledge in one authoritative coaching manual. NBA Coaches Playbook provides a collection of proven methods and strategies for maximizing player and team performance.   Many top current college coaches, such as Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, Louisville’s Rick Pitino, and Auburn’s Nell Fortner, attest to the benefi...

Releasedatum: 2008-09-09 € 27,99

The New York Times Bestseller Out of the greatest dynasty in American professional sports history, an intimate story of race, mortality, and regret About to turn ninety, Bob Cousy, the Hall of Fame Boston Celtics captain who led the team to its first six championships on an unparalleled run, has much to look back on in contentment. But he has one last piece of unfinished business. The last pass he hopes to throw is to close the circle with his great partner on those Celtic teams, fellow Hall of ...

Releasedatum: 2018-10-23 € 9,99

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Inspired by a major ESPN film series, this is an extraordinary oral history of basketball—its eye-opening untold history, its profound deeper meaning, its transformative influence on the world—as told through an unprecedented series of candid conversations with the game’s ultimate icons.   This is the greatest love story never told. It has passion and heartbreak, triumph and betrayal. It is deeply intimate yet crosses oceans, upends lives and changes nati...

Releasedatum: 2018-09-18 € 12,99

Welcome to Pick & Roll Continuity Offense of the Basketball Coachbook Series. In this series of eBooks we will look at a wide variety of basketball offensive plays and with the use of text, diagram, audio and video mediums to help explain the offense in its simplest form, so you can put it on the floor with your players quickly.

Releasedatum: 2017-11-23 € 0,99

“Io ero Lewis Alcindor, diciottenne nero di New York. Ero tutto metropolitane veloci, hot jazz e diritti civili. Lui era John Wooden, cinquantacinquenne bianco di una cittadina dell’Indiana. Era tutto trattori, big band e morale cristiana. Eravamo una coppia da sit-com e la nostra storia stava per cominciare.”All’età di 18 anni Lew Alcindor da New York approda a Los Angeles, a Ucla, alla corte di John Wooden, allenatore del Midwest con la fama di essere un vincente. Tra i due nasce un r...

Releasedatum: 2017-09-10 € 9,99

In this New York Times bestseller, get the inside scoop into LeBron James's return -- and ultimate triumph -- in Cleveland. What really happened when LeBron James stunned the NBA by leaving a potential dynasty in Miami to come home to play with the Cleveland Cavaliers? How did the Cavs use secret meetings to put together the deal to add star Kevin Love? Who really made the controversial decision to fire coach David Blatt when the team was in first place? Where did the greatest comeback in NBA hi...

Releasedatum: 2017-04-11 € 12,99

“As lively, thorough, and engaging as the team it chronicles” (Nathaniel Friedman), Betaball is a compelling look at how the Golden State Warriors embraced savvy business practices, next generation science, and Silicon Valley’s technocentric culture not only to produce one of the greatest basketball teams in history but also to revolutionize the NBA—perfect for fans of Moneyball and The Book of Basketball. Betaball is the definitive, inside account of how the Golden State Warriors, under...

Releasedatum: 2017-10-03 € 14,99