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“[A] slam dunk.”—USA Today“The work of a true fan . . . It might just represent the next phase of sports commentary.”—The Atlantic“May be one of those literary lollapaloozas that Simmons’s fans must buy.”—The New York Times “Wildly prolific, ceaselessly witty, harmlessly crass, and generally wise, Simmons has built an everydude empire by triangulating the trashy pop-culture futon talk of Chuck Klosterman and the stats-heavy philosophizing of Malcolm Gladwell.”—The Village Voice “This is just plain fun. . . . The true NBA fan will dive into this hefty volume and won’t resurface for about a week.”—Booklist (starred review) “The book flows much like Mr. Simmons’s ESPN columns. . . . Opinion gushes out of him. But he backs it up with equal parts serious research and off-angle observations. . . . He has produced enough provocative arguments to fuel barstool arguments far into the future.”—The Wall Street JournalNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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About the Author
Bill Simmons writes “The Sports Guy” column for ESPN.com’s Page 2 and ESPN: The Magazine. He is the author of Now I Can Die In Peace, founded the award-winning bostonsportsguy.com website, and was a writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live. He commutes between his home in Los Angeles and Fenway Park.
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Product details
Paperback: 752 pages
Publisher: ESPN; Updated, Reprint edition (December 7, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345520106
ISBN-13: 978-0345520104
Product Dimensions:
6.1 x 1.6 x 9.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
492 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#18,754 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I gave this 4 stars but, really, I'd go with 3.5 if Amazon allowed for half-star ratings. I like Bill Simmons and find his columns for ESPN interesting (although his pop culture references often lose me), and this is a pretty good book. Good, but not great.First of all, the good: Even though this book is over 700 pages and DOES take a while to read, it doesn't drag. You'll certainly get his opinions on people, which is fine...he IS a columnist, not a historian. It helps if you're a Celtics fan. He's got a breezy style, you'll learn about a lot of past and present NBA players, and the early chapter dealing with Isiah Thomas and "The Secret" is probably the best in the book because it really explains how champions become champions...talent is only part of it. The section on Simmons' "Pyramid" of great players runs well over 300 pages long and you'll disagree with some of his assessments, but again, that's what columnists do. You're SUPPOSED to disagree sometimes.Now the not-so-good: There are a number of factual errors along the way. They're fairly minor, but knowledgeable fans will spot them. Also, he all but ignores the NBA's first 10 seasons because there wasn't a shot clock before 1954 and no great black players before Bill Russell appeared in 1956. The pioneers definitely get the short shrift. Finally, although Simmons says early on that he doesn't intend to spend time speculating on how players would've fared outside their own respective eras, he ends up doing a lot of just that. It's a given that the level of athleticism in all sports has improved over the past 50-60 years, and that George Mikan wouldn't fare any better in the NBA today than Ralph Kiner would in modern MLB baseball for the same reason: They weren't good enough athletes. Even Jackie Robinson would struggle in 21st Century baseball to some extent.If anyone is going to write a book centered around the top 96 players of all-time in a given sport, PLEASE judge players within the context of the era they played in. Fifty years from now, people might say, "That Michael Jordan was pretty good in his day, but he couldn't play in the NBA now." Sound crazy? It would sound crazy to people back when Bob Cousy and Bob Pettit were perennial All-NBAers.In the end, I'd say go ahead and buy this book, but don't look upon it as an encyclopedia or concise history. It's an entertaining, 700-page op-ed piece.
A great read. Superb when Simmons doesn't let himself got lost in pop culture references. But for the life of me i cannot figure out why he ordered the chapters in the manner that he did. The meat of this book is The Pyramid, a ranking of the NBA greats. Its the best part, the thesis, the thrust of the book. Every other chapter should complement and support it. Chapters Two, Four, and Five are amazingly confusing if you don't have a great handle on who was who in the basketball Pyramid. All of those chapters occur before the basketball Pyramid. Chapter One (The Secret) and Three (How the Hell Did We Get Here?) are fantastic building blocks to the Pyramid (also probably his best chapters outside of the pyramid).This would have been a 5 star with the below ordering and i would recommend a reader new to basketball (not aware of its history pre 2000) to read in the following order:Prologue (A Four Dollar Ticket: Why Simmons loves basketball)One (The Secret: the secret that makes a player great)Three (How the Hell Did We Get Here?: a history of shifts in basketball rules, strategy, popularity and how it influenced the game)Six to Eleven (The Pyramid)Two (Russell, Then Wilt: why one was greater than the other. This comes right on the heels of the pyramid where they're fresh in your mind)Five (Most Valuable Chapter: History of the most shady MVP awards)Twelve (The Legend of Keyser Soze: The best single season by an NBA team)Thirteen (The WIne Cellar: The best hypothetical NBA team)Epilogue
I'm a pretty big fan of Bill Simmons: I listen to his Podcast, read his columns, and even briefly subscribed to HBO to watch his short-lived show. That said, it took me a long time to read The Book of Basketball, mainly because I couldn't justify paying for BS content, when there was so much available for free. Having finished reading the book today, and I can say that it was enjoyable, but it is a LONG read.The love Bill has for basketball is pretty evident, and the degree of detail he goes into is impressive. Unfortunately, I'm not as into basketball as he is, and found myself skipping paragraphs to get through it. I wished I had read it sooner, as the views reflect the years in which they were written, and are somewhat out of date for a few players.While enjoyable, the numerous footnotes used were kind of frustrating. They offer skippable tidbits that can help to flesh out a thought, but getting the content was not without struggle. I read on a Kindle app, and was able to click on the footnotes to bring them up, but I would sometimes be skipped to the end of the chapter (where the footnote was), and would then have to navigate back to where I had been. The alternatives did not seem much better, as flipping back and forth or waiting until the end of the chapter would break the flow.If you enjoyable basketball, this book offers great insight into the history of the game. If you enjoy Bill Simmons, this book offers tons of his takes. If you don't enjoy either, it won't change your opinion.Last thought: I can't believe Bill Walton didn't read the book! He can skip over the sections he's in and still have a good experience.
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