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Ice

Why I Was Born to Score

By: George Gervin,Scoop Jackson,Kevin Durant

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Ice

Why I Was Born to Score

By: George Gervin,Scoop Jackson,Kevin Durant

An entertaining and deeply personal autobiography from one of basketball's all-time great scorers To see George Gervin on the hardwood was to witness elegance, entertainment, and boundless cool. With his unmatched agility and vast repertoire of moves, Gervin floated his way to bucket after bucket, night after night across 14 years in the ABA and NBA. "The Iceman" made it look easy, and his number 44 hangs high in the San Antonio rafters as tribute to the excellence that seemed to roll right off his fingertips. In Iceman: Why I Was Born to Score, Gervin opens up for the first time about his life in basketball and beyond, including his childhood in Detroit, the rocky and unconventional path that brought him to professional basketball, and the successful legacy he built as a Spur. Gervin also reflects on family, mental health, spirituality, and his continuing bond with the San Antonio community in this candid and conversational book.

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Triumph Books

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1637272332

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9781637272336

This Game's the Best! So Why Don't They Quit Screwing With It?

So Why Don't They Quit Screwing With It?

By: George Karl,Don Yaeger

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This Game's the Best! So Why Don't They Quit Screwing With It?

So Why Don't They Quit Screwing With It?

By: George Karl,Don Yaeger

Look back at the early coaching career of Hall of Famer George Karl, former head coach of the Seattle Supersonics, and one of the most outspoken men in professional basketball. Opinionated and always passionate about the sport, Karl cuts loose with controversial views on the NBA, the players, the media, sports agents, and the many other elements that make the game great--and sometimes screw it up... in This Game's the Best! So Why Don't They Quit Screwing With It?

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185

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St. Martin's Press

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1466882778

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9781466882775

Furious George

My Forty Years Surviving NBA Divas, Clueless GMs, and Poor Shot Selection

By: George Karl,Curt Sampson

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Furious George

My Forty Years Surviving NBA Divas, Clueless GMs, and Poor Shot Selection

By: George Karl,Curt Sampson

The most outspoken and combative coach in NBA history—and one of the most successful, amassing more than 1,175 victories, the sixth best winning record ever—reflects on his life, his career, and his battles on and off the basketball court in this no-holds-barred memoir A man of deep passion and intensity, George Karl earned his bad boy reputation while playing at the University of North Carolina, a rap that continued through the five years he spent with the San Antonio Spurs—and long after he stopped playing. Karl’s beery nights, fistfights, and barking followed him into a thirty-five-year coaching career. In a game defined by big stakes and bigger egos, rabid fans and an unforgiving media, Karl was hired and fired a dozen times. After leading a team beset by injuries and with no superstar to its best season of all time—an achievement that earned Karl the title NBA Coach of the Year—he was dumped by the Denver Nuggets in 2013. Less than a year and a half later, Karl was at the helm of the Sacramento Kings, snarling and bellowing on the sidelines before being cut loose in May 2016. Intense, obstinate, and loud, Karl has never backed down from a confrontation, whether with management, officials, or star players, as NBA legends from Allan Iverson to Gary Payton to Carmelo Anthony to Demarcus Cousins can attest. Telling his story, Karl holds nothing back as he speaks out about the game that has defined his life, including the greed, selfishness, and ass-covering he believes are characteristic of the modern NBA player, and the rampant corruption that leads all the way to the office of the NBA commissioner, David Stern. Karl also reveals how he’s learned to deal with the personalities, the pressure, and the setbacks with a resilience he acquired from his three bouts with cancer. Raw, hard-hitting, and brutally honest, Furious George is as thrilling, unpredictable, and entertaining as the game that has defined Karl’s life.

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201

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HarperCollins

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0062367811

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9780062367815

Driving Detroit

The Quest for Respect in the Motor City

By: George Galster

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Driving Detroit

The Quest for Respect in the Motor City

By: George Galster

For most of the twentieth century, Detroit was a symbol of American industrial might, a place of entrepreneurial and technical ingenuity where the latest consumer inventions were made available to everyone through the genius of mass production. Today, Detroit is better known for its dwindling population, moribund automobile industry, and alarmingly high murder rate. In Driving Detroit, author George Galster, a fifth-generation Detroiter and internationally known urbanist, sets out to understand how the city has come to represent both the best and worst of what cities can be, all within the span of a half century. Galster invites the reader to travel with him along the streets and into the soul of this place to grasp fully what drives the Motor City. With a scholar's rigor and a local's perspective, Galster uncovers why metropolitan Detroit's cultural, commercial, and built landscape has been so radically transformed. He shows how geography, local government structure, and social forces created a housing development system that produced sprawl at the fringe and abandonment at the core. Galster argues that this system, in tandem with the region's automotive economic base, has chronically frustrated the population's quest for basic physical, social, and psychological resources. These frustrations, in turn, generated numerous adaptations—distrust, scapegoating, identity politics, segregation, unionization, and jurisdictional fragmentation—that collectively leave Detroit in an uncompetitive and unsustainable position. Partly a self-portrait, in which Detroiters paint their own stories through songs, poems, and oral histories, Driving Detroit offers an intimate, insightful, and perhaps controversial explanation for the stunning contrasts—poverty and plenty, decay and splendor, despair and resilience—that characterize the once mighty city.

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320

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812222954

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9780812222951

The Big Leagues Go to Washington

Congress and Sports Antitrust, 1951-1989

By: David George Surdam

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The Big Leagues Go to Washington

Congress and Sports Antitrust, 1951-1989

By: David George Surdam

Between 1951 and 1989, Congress held a series of hearings to investigate the antitrust aspects of professional sports leagues. Among the concerns: ownership control of players, restrictions on new franchises, territorial protection, and other cartel-like behaviors. In The Big Leagues Go to Washington, David Surdam chronicles the key issues that arose during the hearings and the ways opposing sides used economic data and theory to define what was right, what was feasible, and what was advantageous to one party or another. As Surdam shows, the hearings affected matters as fundamental to the modern game as broadcasting rights, player drafts and unions, league mergers, and the dominance of the New York Yankees. He also charts how lawmakers from the West and South pressed for the relocation of ailing franchises to their states and the ways savvy owners dodged congressional interference when they could and adapted to it when necessary.

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329

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University of Illinois Press

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0252097122

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9780252097126

Elevating the Game

Black Men and Basketball

By: Nelson George

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Elevating the Game

Black Men and Basketball

By: Nelson George

Links the history of race relations to the history of basketball by reviewing the era of the first Black teams, the first integration of teams, and the innovations that Black players have brought to the game

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803270852

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9780803270855

The Prentice Hall Reader

By: George Miller

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The Prentice Hall Reader

By: George Miller

This best-selling rhetorical modes reader features ten chapters focusing on classic rhetorical modes such as narration, description and argument and persuasion. Each chapter offers readings scaled by difficulty, suggestions for using the strategy in other disciplines, connecting and anticipating questions, detailed writing exercises and extensive revision activities. New Features: Literary examples of the organizational strategies added to each chapter to help students connect poems or brief short stories with the given strategy. New prewriting and rewriting suggestions. "Writing Links" for each essay that focuses students' attention on how the writer uses punctuation, word choice, sentence structure, typographical devices and paragraph skills to create an effective essay. The Companion Website(TM) is the largest, most extensive Website of any reader. Among its highlights, the site features hotlinks, additional background information on the readings, writing assignments and practice using Web-based materials. Supplements Include: Instructor's Quiz Booklet Annotated Instructor's Edition with "teaching strategy" for each essay, class activities, collaborative learning activities, critical reading activities and links to writing. Teaching Writing with the Prentice Hall Reader that offers helpful suggestions to the new and seasoned instructor.

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Prentice Hall

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0131828010

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9780131828018

Michael Jordan

A Shooting Star

By: George W. Beahm

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Michael Jordan

A Shooting Star

By: George W. Beahm

A companion book for his younger fans, this collection brings together a wealth of information on basketball great Michael Jordan. Profusely illustrated with photographs, many in full color, the book is uplifting and inspiring to help teenagers make their dreams come true.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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0836280482

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9780836280487

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Ice

Ice

This Game's the Best! So Why Don't They Quit Screwing With It?

This Game's the Best! So Why Don't They Quit Screwing With It?

Furious George

Furious George

Driving Detroit

Driving Detroit

The Big Leagues Go to Washington

The Big Leagues Go to Washington

Elevating the Game

Elevating the Game

The Prentice Hall Reader

The Prentice Hall Reader

Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan

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