Grab a book to go along with your March Madness obsession! The bottom of this list even has some basketball DVDs if you are interested in those as well. All of these are available to browse at our March Madness display in the library. Interested in a specific one? The hyperlinks will take you to the catalog for an easy request.
Books
Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Geno : in pursuit of perfection by Geno Auriemma
To the hoop : the seasons of a basketball life by Ira Berkow
When the game was ours by Larry Bird & Earvin Magic Johnson
All the dreams we’ve dreamed : a story of hoops and handguns on Chicago’s west side by Rus Bradburd
The mamba mentality: how I play by Kobe Bryant
Getting to us : how great coaches make great teams by Seth Davis
When March went mad : the game that transformed basketball by Seth Davis
The secret game : a wartime story of courage, change, and basketball’s lost triumph by Scott Ellsworth
The legends club : Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an epic college basketball rivalry by John Feinstein
Bubbleball: Inside the NBA’s fight to save a season by Ben Golliver
Sooley : a novel by John Grisham
Tigerland: 1968-1969, a city divided, a nation torn apart, and a magical season of healing by Wil Haygood
The Sixth Man: a memoir by Andre Iguodala
Showboat : the life of Kobe Bryant by Roland Lazenby
Strong inside : Perry Wallace and the collision of race and sports in the South by Andrew Maraniss
Dream team: how Michael, Magic, larry, Charles, and the greatest team of all time conquered the world and changed the game of basketball forever by Jack McCallum
Three-ring circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the crazy years of the Lakers dynasty by Jeff Pearlman
Year of the dunk: a modest defiance of gravity by Asher Price
Fall River dreams: a team’s quest for glory – a town’s search for its soul by Bill Reynolds
Rise of a dynasty: the ’57 Celtics, the first banner, and the dawning of a new America by Bill Reynolds
The first tip-off: the incredible story of the birth of the NBA by Charles Rosen
Sugar : Micheal Ray Richardson, eighties excess, and the NBA by Charles Rosen
The book of basketball: the NBA according to the sports guy by Bill Simmons
Back from the Dead by Bill Walton
Brave Dragons : a Chinese basketball team, an American coach, and two cultures clashing by Jim Yardley
