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Basketball in America : From the Playgrounds to Jordan's Game and Beyond.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence :
Taylor and Francis,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; About the Editor; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction: Basketball in America; Part I: Basketball in American Culture; Chapter 2. Michael Jordan: Icon; Chapter 3. Marvin, Marvin; Chapter 4. Nike and Popular Culture; Chapter 5. Hoosiers to Hoop Dreams: Basketball on the Big Screen; Part II: The Playgrounds and Beyond; Chapter 6. The Schoolyard Game: Blacktop Legends and Broken Dreams; Chapter 7. Fundamentals: Coaching Today's High School Player; Chapter 8. Seventeen Things I Learned from Dean Smith.
- Chapter 9. Socks, Jocks, and Two Championship RingsChapter 10. Foreign Players and the Globalization of Basketball; Part III: The Professional Game; Chapter 11. Elgin Baylor: The First Modern Professional Basketball Player; Chapter 12. Chocolate Thunder and Short Shorts: The NBA in the 1970s; Chapter 13. Crashing the Boards: The WNBA and the Evolution of an Image; Chapter 14. Dr. J, Bird, Magic, Jordan, and the Detroit Bad Boys: The NBA in the 1980s; Chapter 15. The Jordan Era: The NBA in the 1990s; Chapter 16. King James: LeBron James, Hype, Hope, and the Future of the NBA.
- Chapter 17. Conclusion: Basketball Is AmericaAppendix: Selected Timeline; Bibliography; Index.