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Books for March Madness

March 02, 2022

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

Boom town : the fantastical saga of Oklahoma city, its chaotic founding , its apocalyptic weather, its purloined basketball team, and the dream of becoming a world-class metropolis by Sam Anderson

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 

Kobe: forever 1978-2020

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

DVDs

Boogie

Hoosiers

My many sons

The way back 

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