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Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated Spiral-Bound | October 6, 2020

Shea Serrano, Arturo Torres (Illustrated by), Reggie Miller (Foreword by)

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Every basketball question you’ve ever wanted answered, from the wild mind of author Shea Serrano


#1 New York Times bestseller
“Hilarious, informative.” —Slam Magazine
“The ultimate book on basketball fandom.” —NPR
“Cleverly written . . . A must for any basketball fan.” —Esquire
“Full of hilarious hypotheticals, fun footnotes, and magnificent illustration.” —Buzzfeed
 
Every fan of Shea Serrano’s unconventional, hilarious, and insightful writing will want to add this hardcover edition of his wildly popular Basketball (and Other Things) to their sports book collection. This edition features a new cover and two new chapters as well as a removable basketball card that showcases Serrano’s trademark creativity and Arturo Torres’s inimitable illustration style.
 
On first publication, this unique, eye-opening look at basketball history and stars became a nationwide bestseller. Serrano covers topics such as:
  • Who’s the greatest dunker in NBA history?
  • Which NBA players get remembered for the wrong reasons?
  • What’s the most important NBA Championship?
  • Who had the better big-name game under duress?
  • Which NBA player’s legacy is the most greatly affected if we give him the Championship he never won?
  • And many more!
Do you love basketball? The Celtics, Lakers, Bulls, Clippers, Knicks, Pistons, Warriors, another team? Then you’ll love what Serrano has to say about the game you love, the team you love, and the players past and present who have made the NBA the greatest show in sports for decades. Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Steph Curry, Wilt Chamberlain, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Allen Iverson, Patrick Ewing, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: They are all here.
 
You’ll love this book. And you’ll love NBA basketball even more after reading it. Buy it for yourself or for the basketball fan in your life.
Who is the greatest dunker of all time? Which version of the Michael Jordan was the best Michael Jordan? What is allowed and absolutely not allowed in a game of pickup basketball? Basketball (and Other Things) presents readers with a whole new set of pivotal and ridiculous fan disputes from basketball history, providing arguments and answers, explained with the wit and wisdom that is unique to Shea Serrano. Serrano breaks down debates that NBA fans didn’t even know they needed, from the classic (How many years during his career was Kobe Bryant actually the best player in the league?) to the fantastical (If you could assign different values to different shots throughout basketball history, what would they be and why?). With incredible art from Arturo Torres, this book is a must-have for anyone who has ever stayed up late into the night debating basketball’s greatest moments, what-ifs, stories, and legends, or for those who are discovering the mythology of basketball for the first time.
 
Publisher: ABRAMS
Original Binding: Hardcover Paper over boards
Pages: 256 pages
ISBN-10: 1419743198
Item Weight: 1.7 lbs
Dimensions: 7.5 x 1.3 x 9.0 inches
“Shea Serrano’s new book… is a hilarious, informative group of passages that answer questions you never realized needed to be asked."
-Slam Magazine
Shea Serrano is an award-winning writer, author, and illustrator. His recent book, The Rap Year Book, reached the bestseller lists of the New York Times and Washington Post, topped the iBooks arts and entertainment bestseller list, and was named one of Billboard's Best 100 Music Books of All Time. Serrano is a staff writer for The Ringer. He lives in Houston, Texas.