Basketball in America : from the playgrounds to Jordan's game and beyond /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Haworth Press,
[2005]
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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.