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Colorful guide celebrating modern basketball culture.
If you’re a basketball fanatic who savors the game beyond just scores, "The Joy of Basketball" will be a slam dunk for you. Its energetic compilation of analysis, illustrations, and out-of-the-box commentary captures the soul of the sport. It's like having courtside seats to the evolution, drama, and idiosyncrasies that make modern basketball a fascinating spectacle. It could be your next favorite coffee table book, offering both a visual feast and insightful banter.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9781419754821
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Date of Publication: 2021-11-09
Format: Hardcover
Related Topics:
Social Issues,
Fitness,
Personal Development,
Social Justice,
Basketball,
Essays,
Recreation
Goodreads rating: 4.12
(rated by 135 readers)
Description
From writer Ben Detrick and artist Andrew Kuo, a vibrant, unconventional, highly opinionated guide to the triumphs, joys, struggles, and heartbreaks of the modern era of the game, for every obsessive basketball fan who loves to hate hot takes. Foreword by Desus Nice. The Joy of Basketball: An Encyclopedia of the Modern Game celebrates the meteoric rise of basketball over the last quarter century by ignoring the bland, traditionalist binary of wins or losses. Instead, the book’s focus is on everything else. Using text, charts, and illustrations that upend conventional jock wisdom, the book details the most incredible players in history, draft flops, long-limbed oddballs, superteams, the international talent wave, brawls, scandals, the rapid evolution of contemporary gameplay, coaching, fashion, crime, positional erosion, tragic tales, memes, and the sacred Kardashian Blessing. Bouncing between witty graphics and keen sociopolitical observations, The Joy of Basketball is a subversive sports manifesto camouflaged as a colorful reference book for your coffee table.
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Colorful guide celebrating modern basketball culture.
If you’re a basketball fanatic who savors the game beyond just scores, "The Joy of Basketball" will be a slam dunk for you. Its energetic compilation of analysis, illustrations, and out-of-the-box commentary captures the soul of the sport. It's like having courtside seats to the evolution, drama, and idiosyncrasies that make modern basketball a fascinating spectacle. It could be your next favorite coffee table book, offering both a visual feast and insightful banter.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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