Basketball

Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter and 10 feet (3.048 m) high mounted to a backboard at each end.

Big Shot (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #16)
Game Changer (King of the Court, #1)
Sooley
Hating the Player (Campus Wallflowers #2)
Beautiful Broken Love
Play Maker (King of the Court, #3)
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Shot Taker (King of the Court, #2)
Break the Rules (Vancouver Tridents, #1)
The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman
Rez Ball
Game Day (King of the Court, #4)
Technical (St. Louis Cyclones #2)
Coming Home
Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
The Right Move (Windy City, #2)
The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy
The Crossover
When the Game Was Ours
The Breaks of the Game
Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever
Long Shot (Hoops, #1)
The Jordan Rules: The Inside Story of One Turbulent Season with Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls
Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association
Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
Michael Jordan: The Life
Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s
Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich
The King's Men by Nora SakavicThe Understatement of the Year by Sarina BowenFight by Kelly WyreCrashing the Net by Samantha WaylandPunch-Drunk Love by Nico Jaye
M/M Athletes|Coaches Books 2014
25 books — 9 voters
Tanker 10 by Jonathan CurelopGold Medal Threat by Michael BalkindDare to Kiss by S.B. AlexanderBaseball Legends by Mike EngelhardThe Perfect Blindside by Leslea Wahl
Sports books for young adults
50 books — 69 voters

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi BarrettPrincess Ballot by Jaymin EveThe Football Player's Obsession by Emma BrayThe Pinballs by Betsy ByarsLyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth
96 'Balls'
476 books — 25 voters

The Deal by Elle KennedyAlex by Sawyer BennettRyker by Sawyer BennettTaking Shots by Toni AleoZack by Sawyer Bennett
Sport Romances That Score
250 books — 136 voters


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John McPhee
If basketball was going to enable Bradley to make friends, to prove that a banker's son is as good as the next fellow, to prove that he could do without being the greatest-end-ever at Missouri, to prove that he was not chicken, and to live up to his mother's championship standards, and if he was going to have some moments left over to savor his delight in the game, he obviously needed considerable practice, so he borrowed keys to the gym and set a schedule for himself that he adhereded to for fo ...more
John McPhee, A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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