50 de mest populära böckerna i Sverige●Basketboll

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: 2013-04-16 169,00 kr

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: 2018-10-23 149,00 kr

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: 2009-10-27 139,00 kr

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 och friluftsliv 29,00 kr

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 85,00 kr

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: 2021-11-09 169,00 kr

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: 2014-03-04 129,00 kr

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 49,00 kr

How money, guts, and greed built the Warriors dynasty -- and then took it apart The Golden State Warriors dominated the NBA for the better part of a decade. Since the arrival of owner Joe Lacob, they won more championships and sold more merchandise than any other franchise in the sport. And in 2019, they opened the doors on a lavish new stadium. Yet all this success contained some of the seeds of decline. Ethan Sherwood Strauss's clear-eyed exposé reveals the team's culture, its financial ambit...

Releasedatum: 2020-04-14 129,00 kr

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: 2018-09-18 149,00 kr

The definitive, never-before-told story of the prep-to-pro generation, those basketball prodigies who from 1995 to 2005 made the jump directly from high school to the NBA .   When Kevin Garnett shocked the world by announcing that he would not be attending college—as young basketball prodigies were expected to do—but instead enter the 1995 NBA draft directly from high school, he blazed a trail for a generation of teenage basketball players to head straight for the pros. That trend would...

Releasedatum: 2016-03-15 119,00 kr

NABC’s Youth Basketball Coaching Handbook teaches parent-coaches how to coach and develop youngsters through the basketball-playing experience. Shares crucial knowledge about coaching young basketball players, including: reasons for coaching, developing a coaching philosophy, motivating young athletes, planning/organization, game coaching, establishing personnel roles, developing essential skills, monitoring and controlling player behavior, developing character lessons, and much more.

Releasedatum: 2006-07-26 79,00 kr

Game Strategy and Tactics for Basketball: Preparing to Win the Sideline Battles is both a how-to book and a guide for how to plan strategy and tactics for basketball for an entire season or an individual game. Coaches often focus on X's and O's and overlook how and when a particular offense or defense should be applied and used during a game. Game Strategy and Tactics for Basketball: Preparing to Win the Sideline Battles serves as a planning guide and a master checklist for all the possible situ...

Releasedatum: 2013-12-16 49,00 kr

«Θα είμαι σύντομος. Ευχαριστώ για τα εννέα αυτά υπέροχα χρόνια. Θα είστε στην καρδιά μου μέχρι να πεθάνω», ήταν τα λόγια του Μάικ Μπατίστ όπως αναφέρει στο επιπλέον κεφάλαιο που πρόσθεσε στην αυτοβιογραφία του μετά τις συγκινητικές στιγμές που έζησε στο ΟΑΚΑ κατά την επιστ...

Releasedatum: 2013-01-01 79,00 kr

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 49,00 kr

A Season on the Brink chronicles the basketball season that John Feinstein spent following the Indiana Hoosiers and their fiery coach, Bob Knight. Knight granted Feinstein an unprecedented inside look at college basketball -- with complete access to every moment of the season. Feinstein saw and heard it all -- practices, team meetings, strategy sessions, and mid-game huddles -- during Knight's struggle to avoid a losing season. A Season on the Brink not only captures the drama and pressure of bi...

Releasedatum: 2012-12-11 169,00 kr

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: 2009-11-03 169,00 kr

From award-winning Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, an “entertaining” ( The Wall Street Journal ) and nostalgia-filled retelling of the 1980s Boston Celtics’ glory years, which featured the sublime play of NBA legend Larry Bird. Today the NBA is a vast global franchise—a billion-dollar industry seen by millions of fans in the United States and abroad. But it wasn’t always this successful. Before primetime ESPN coverage, lucrative branding deals like Air Jordans, and $40 million ...

Releasedatum: 2021-11-16 179,00 kr

I'm an authentic Old School Sports Junkie. Old School because I am old as measured in time served, 79-years young; Old School because I believe in corny traditions, and the purity of sports, where athletes play for fun and fans happily engage to get away from the daily pressures of everyday life. The take away from the book is rarely but periodically the unexplainable finish happens dare I say miracle. I am 100% convinced "That Lady" is alive watching the action, waiting for the perfect last sec...

Releasedatum: 2019-09-23 Genre:Sport och friluftsliv 79,00 kr

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: 2020-03-17 129,00 kr

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: 2019-09-10 129,00 kr

Heaven Is a Playground was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball. Rick Telander, a photojournalist and former high school basketball player, spent part of the summer of 1973 and all of the summer of 1974 in Brooklyn living the playground life with his subjects at Foster Park in Flatbush. He slept on the floor of a park regular’s apartment, observing, questioning, traveling, playing with, and eventually coaching a ragtag group of local teenagers whose hopes of b...

Releasedatum: 2013-09-01 159,00 kr

Oscar Robertson is known as one of the best players in NBA history, a triple-double machine who set the stage for the versatility of today's NBA superstars like LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, and Draymond Green. But The Big O's larger legacy may lie in spearheading the fight for his fellow players' financial equity and free agency, joined by fellow stars John Havlicek, Bill Bradley, Wes Unseld, and more. In Hard Labor , Sam Smith, best-selling basketball scribe emeritus and author of The Jorda...

Releasedatum: 2017-11-01 115,00 kr

Jis – neabejotina žvaigždė Europos krepšinio padangėje. Jis – legenda sporto, dėl kurio lietuviai tiesiog eina iš proto. Jis – pavyzdys tiems, kurie tyliai pasvajoja kada nors tapti profesionaliais sportininkais. Jis – Šarūnas Jasikevičius. Vienas žinomiausių šių laikų krepšininkų, kurio kadaise troško didžiausios Europos krepšinio komandos, išskėstomis rankomis kiekvieną vasarą laukė nacionalinė rinktinė su tūkstantine Lietuvos sirgalių minia, tas, kurio tal...

Releasedatum: 2015-10-01 109,00 kr

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 35,00 kr

101 Strength and Conditioning Exercises and Drills for Basketball provides players and coaches with a broad variety of basketball-specific training options that will allow them to compete effectively and injury-free in today’s physical and fast-paced game. Covers flexibility and warm-up exercises, conditioning drills, balance and core drills and exercises, strength training exercises, speed drills, agility/quickness drills, and explosiveness drills. Each drill or exercise is thoroughly explain...

Releasedatum: 2006-07-24 79,00 kr

Coach and NAIA Champions of Character special presenter Bruce Brown offers 101 great drills to teach, motivate, and challenge youth basketball players. Covers rebounding, defense, aggressiveness, fast break, offense, shooting, passing and pre-game drills. Each drill is thoroughly explained and diagrammed. Special chapter on games and fun ways to end practice.

Releasedatum: 2001-07-24 79,00 kr

An introduction to core aspects of youth basketball written in an easy-to-understand and apply manner. Includes drills to help teach correct form from the start. Covers the following key topics: Basketball stance and footwork, dribbling, passing, catching, and cutting, rebounding, layups, free throws, shooting, coordination and conditioning drills. Also includes tips for coaches and tips for players. Ideal for beginning youth basketball coaches, parents of youth basketball players, and even help...

Releasedatum: 2014-03-31 119,00 kr

New York Times Bestseller This big-hearted memoir by the most promising professional basketball player of his generation details his rise to NBA stardom, the terrible accident that ended his career and plunged him into a life-altering depression, and how he ultimately found his way out of the darkness. Ten years ago, Jay Williams was at the beginning of a brilliant professional basketball career. The Chicago Bulls’ top draft pick—and the second pick of the entire draft—he had the great Mic...

Releasedatum: 2016-01-26 109,00 kr

The story of Duke University's 2000-2001 championship basketball season is one of a young inexperienced team, insurmountable odds, and the visionary coach that brought them to victory.

Releasedatum: 2001-11-01 25,00 kr

America's favorite sportswriter takes readers on a thrilling and unforgettable journey into the world of college basketball in this national bestseller. Like millions who love college basketball, John Feinstein was first drawn to the game because of its intensity, speed and intelligence. Like many others, he felt that the vast sums of money involved in NCAA basketball had turned the sport into a division of the NBA, rather than the beloved amateur sport it once was. He went in search of college ...

Releasedatum: 2008-11-16 69,00 kr

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 25,00 kr

ESPN basketball analyst and former Duke player Jay Bilas looks at the true meaning of toughness in this New York Times bestselling book that features stories from basketball legends. If anyone knows tough, it’s Jay Bilas. A four-year starter at Duke, he learned a strong work ethic under Coach Mike Krzyzewski. After playing professionally overseas, he returned to Duke, where he served as Krzyzewski’s assistant coach for three seasons, helping to guide the Blue Devils to two national champions...

Releasedatum: 2013-03-05 95,00 kr

The ability to mould a group of talented individual athletes into an effective team takes effort and skill. Team Psychology in Sports examines the crucial factors in the development of an effective team, introducing important psychological and organizational concepts and offering evidence-based interventions for enhancing the performance of any sports team. The book neatly bridges the gap between theory and practice, with real sporting case studies, examples and practical tools included in each ...

Releasedatum: 2012-08-21 Genre:Sport och friluftsliv 369,00 kr

LeBron James, The Chosen One, is one of the greatest and most controversial basketball players in the history of the NBA. He is an eight-time NBA All-Star, a three-time league MVP, and now - a champion. Most fans are aware of his amazing accomplishments on the court and of his controversial "Decision" to leave Cleveland for South Beach, but in order to truly understand LeBron James, you must first understand where he came from. LeBron James: An Unauthorized Biography explores James' upbringing, ...

Releasedatum: 2015-05-06 19,00 kr

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: 2001-04-03 159,00 kr

Strength & Honor. A code that Kobe Bryant seems to live by. This inspiring & practical guide takes a unique spin on the traditional unauthorized biography by providing insight into how Kobe approaches his life, on & off the court. Also, by highlighting Eight Principles For Success pulled from various stages in his life, this book allows you to potentially apply these practices to your own life.

Releasedatum: 2010-10-30 45,00 kr

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. This book features year round basketball-specific weight training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. No other basketball book to date has been so well designe...

Releasedatum: 2011-09-01 69,00 kr

Butler University in Indianapolis became the smallest school in 40 years to reach the NCAA championship game. Prior to the tournament, a statistician calculated the Bulldogs as a 200-to-1 shot to win. But as fascinating as what Butler accomplished was how they did it. Underdawgs tells the incredible and uplifting story. Butler’s coach, 33-year-old Brad Stevens, looked so young he was often mistaken for one of the players, but he had quickly become one of the best coaches in the nation by emplo...

Releasedatum: 2010-11-30 169,00 kr

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: 2002-02-17 139,00 kr