Basketball: Olympic Handbook of Sports Medicine

Robert D. Bradley

Robert Bradley's The Compendium of Professional Basketball (Second Edition) is a must-have for all fans of professional basketball in North America! Detailing the rise of professional basketball from its earliest days in the late 1800s to the current day, The Compendium of Professional Basketball is every basketball fan's dream: an incredible collection of facts, standings, histories and statistics for all leagues, men's and women's, major and minor, defunct and active. This amazing book includes: Detailed chronologies of the men's and women's major leagues dating from the 1890s; The NBA, the ABA, the old BAA and ABL are included! Of the women's leagues, the WBL, the ABL and the WNBA are included; Capsules of each season including important dates, complete standings and playoff scores; Complete records for all major men's and women's teams; Complete history of the playoffs; Award winners and All-Star teams; Player movement and significant trades; All-time rosters, both men's and...

Elliot Kalb

When the NBA released its supposedly authoritative list of the top 50 players, basketball fans everywhere begged to differ. In Who's Better, Who's Best? Elliot Kalb, known to TV viewers as ABC's "Mr. Stats," enters the fray. The ultimate NBA historian and authority in armchair athletes' disputes, Kalb interweaves numbers, facts, and anecdotes to flesh out the central question in every basketball fan's mind: Who's the best? His choices are provocative (Michael Jordan isn't #1; he's not even #2), framed by discussions with unorthodox sources and respected NBA experts, players, and coaches. A tremendously satisfying book for anyone hungry for statistics and debate, this is the ultimate behind-the-numbers story of the best of the NBA.

John F. Grabowski

Coming into the NBA as an expansion team in 1966, the Bulls experienced many years of frustration before Michael Jordan and company made them the team of the '90s, winning six NBA championships in the decade.

Kyle Wright

What NBA team was the greatest ever? For basketball fans, that question can lead to widespread debate. Sports journalist and basketball enthusiast Kyle Wright has created a new and unique computer formula to rank every team in NBA history. Coining it as the POST formula, Wright assigns ratings to all NBA teams based on how they stack up to other comparable teams during any year—from the number of wins and losses to points scored and points allowed. The result is a complete ranking that takes you from number one to number 1,153.

Charley Rosen

Return to basketball's salad days, when the boys were green and the money didn't matter. On November 1, 1946, in the NBA's (then called the BAA) first game ever, as the visiting New York Knickerbockers defeated the Toronto Huskies, the first point in the history of the NBA was scored by the Knicks' Oscar “Ossie” Schectman. It was the point that launched more than six million points to come, and Ossie did it, like all of his team members, for a mere $60 and a passionate love of the game. Who could have guessed back then that this fledgling league of 11 ragtag teams would one day grow into the billion-dollar international phenomenon that it is today? In The First Tip-Off, veteran basketball writer Charley Rosen takes you back to the NBA's humble beginnings, when a colorful cast of characters laid the foundation for the empire that is today's NBA. With riveting writing, he gives you a prime seat courtside for every memorable two-handed underhand layup and hook shot of...