Basketball in America : from the playgrounds to Jordan's game and beyond /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Batchelor, Bob
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Haworth Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Michael Jordan : icon / Bob Batchelor
  • Marvin, Marvin / David Davis
  • Nike and popular culture / Kelly McMasters
  • Hoosiers to Hoop dreams : basketball on the big screen / Kevin Grace
  • The schoolyard game : blacktop legends and broken dreams / Bijan C. Bayne
  • Fundamentals : coaching today's high school player / Chris Burtch
  • Seventeen things I learned from Dean Smith / Peter Cashwell
  • Socks, jocks, and two championship rings / Michael Buchert
  • Foreign players and the globalization of basketball / Renada Rutmanis
  • Elgin Baylor : the first modern professional basketball player / James Fisher
  • Chocolate thunder and short shorts : the NBA in the 1970s / David Friedman
  • Crashing the boards : the WNBA and the evolution of an image / Lisa A. Ennis
  • Dr. J, Bird, Magic, Jordan, and the Detroit bad boys : the NBA in the 1980s / Lawrence E. Ziewacz
  • The Jordan era : the NBA in the 1990s / Doug Fox
  • King James : LeBron James, hype, hope, and the future of the NBA / Bob Batchelor
  • Conclusion : Basketball is America / Bob Batchelor.