As one of the greatest, most celebrated athletes in history, Michael Jordan conquered professional basketball as no one had before. Powered by a potent mix of charisma, nearly superhuman abilities, and a ferocious need to dominate the game, he won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls and captured every basketball award and accolade conceivable before retiring and taking a top executive post with the Washington Wizards.

An insightful and inspirational book, Values of the Game is former Senator and basketball Hall-of-Famer Bill Bradley’s consideration of the value of competitive sports. Writing about things like teamwork, dedication and passion, Bradley evinces a deep appreciation for the values behind athletic achievement and argues convincingly for the need to extend those values into our everyday lives.

Legendary University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith tells the full story of his fabled career, and shares the life lessons taught and learned over forty years of unparalleled success as a coach and mentor.For almost forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina men's basketball program with unsurpassed success- on the court and in shaping young men's ...

Sam Houston Leaping Deer follows in a long tradition of American heroes — from Huckleberry Finn to Holden Caulfield — individuals who struggle against a frequently hostile society for psychological survival, for integrity, and for authenticity. Sam is an Alabama-Coushatta Indian trapped between his Indian heritage and white America. Sam is a talented basketball player. He is the best pure shooter ever to come off the reservation. Putting a basketball through a hoop is for him a mystical, even metaphysical event.

The charismatic basketball coach at the University of Connecticut reveals the victorious secrets behind his team's breathtaking journey to the 1999 NCAA Division I National Championship--and along the way shares his philosophy for winning.It was one of those games that basketball fans will talk about for years. Here was the seemingly unbeatable Duke Blue Devils pitted against the ...

Ralph Miller, Hall of Fame basketball coach has for the first time chronicled his system in book form. It teaches you about his offense, defense, presses, fast break patterns and more. It also contains historical information about the game of basketball and personal information on Coach Miller's outstanding career. A must have for any coaching library! Coach Miller passed away on May 15th, 2001. This makes his information even more valuable.

For forty years, he has been the Quiet Man of the NBA. With only John Wooden does Lenny Wilkens share the honor of being inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame twice - first as a player, and then as a coach. In this thought-provoking, candid memoir, Wilkens speaks plainly and unequivocally on the changes he's seen in his career.

That camp changed how I felt about basketball and my future. It was the turning point in my life."--Michael Jordan Before there was a Nike or Adidas camp for the nation's elite high-school players, there was Five-Star. Now in its37th year, Howard Garfinkel's Five-Star camp has produced hundreds of NBA and Division 1-A college players, including such superstars as Michael Jordan, Isaiah Thomas, and Vince Carter. In More Five-Star Basketball Drills, the author offers readers his one-of-a-kind, exclusive guide to the superstar camp's most successful drills, straight from the personal notepads of some of the nation's most successful professional and college coaches. Coaches and players looking for a proven hoop drill program will find: More than 100 fundamentally sound and easy-to-execute drills An inside look at Five-Star's sure-fire plan for improving one's game Exclusive photos from the camp's illustrious history

In Rabbit Run, Harry Angstrom is a star basketball player in high school and that was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work is unfulfilling, his marriage is moribund, and he tries to find happiness with another woman.

There was a time when 'counting coup' meant literally touching one's enemy in battle and living to talk about it. Still part of the Native American tradition, today the phrase means playing winning hoops and dominating one's opponents. Capturing the divisive racism between whites and Native Americans and the hardscrabble existence of a small rural town, Counting Coup tells the story of the girls' varsity basketball team at Hardin High School in Crow, Montana.

Pat Croce's management and motivational expertise are world-renowned. His fresh, daring leadership philosophy launched a small physical therapy practice into a nationwide franchise and revitalized Philadelphia's famed 76ers basketball team -- stories that were relayed in his bestselling memoir, I Feel Great and You Will Too!