NBA High-Flyers (Bill Gutman)

NBA High-Flyers

Bill Gutman

Blurb: They're the high-flying, slam-dunking, in-your-face magicians, America's hottest court superstars, attracting record-breaking crowds to basketball. Check em out: Basketball's bad boy, Charles Barkley, the driving force behind the Phoenix Suns...Patrick Ewing, one of the league's best scorers and leader of the powerful New York Knicks...San Antonio Spurs' all-star centre, David Robinson...the incredible Shaquille O'Neal, who led the Orlando Magic to their first playoff ever...Hakeem Olajuwon, the Houston Rockets' great scorer, outstanding rebounder and shot blocker...Scottie Pippen, emerging from the shadow of his Chicago Bulls teammate Michael Jordan to showcase his own superstar talents... Alonzo Mourning and Larry Johnson of the Charlotte Hornets, considered the best of the young one-two superstar tandems in the NBA...and veteran leader of the Golden State Warriors, Chris Mullin.

They're all here, up-close and personal, in NBA High-Flyers.

ISBN: 0671887394 (Paperback)

Year: 1995

Publisher: Archway Paperback

Pages: 166 (Non-Fiction)

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4. Official site of the NBA

5. Yahoo! NBA page

Space Jam (James Preller)

Space Jam

Adapted by James Preller

Blurb: Sufferin' succotash! They're Monstars!

Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and the whole Looney Tunes gang have been kidnapped by aliens. They'll be stuck in outer space forever... unless they can beat the aliens at a game of basketball. Can the Tune Squad slam-dunk the Monstars?

Only with Michael Jordan on their team!

ISBN: 0590945548 (Paperback)

Year: 1996

Publisher: Scholastic

Pages: 32 (Fiction)

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3. IMDB page for the film

4. Official site for the film

5. Wikipedia page for the film

Bad As I Wanna Be (Dennis Rodman with Tim Keown)

Bad As I Wanna Be

Dennis Rodman with Tim Keown

Blurb: Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other fifty percent is money. On an April night in 1993 I sat in the cab of my pickup truck with a rifle on my lap, deciding whether to kill myself. I don't expect Scottie Pippen to forgive me for what I did to him. I don't expect him to forget about it either. I've been homeless. I've worked at 7-Eleven. I'm a real person, with real experiences, not some image that somebody in the NBA office created. When you talk about race in basketball, the whole thing is simple: a black player knows he can go out on the court and kick a white player's ass. I used to go through the whole routine - dress up, wear makeup, act like a girl. Those guys in San Antonio can kiss my ass, especially Gregg Popovich, the general manager...Popovich wanted to be the guy who tamed Dennis Rodman. Madonna looked at me all sexy and said, 'You're staying with me, in my room.' How much do you really want to win when you have as much money, attention, and fame as Shaquille O'Neal does? White women get into relationships with black men because they think the sex is going to be better. I knew I would have been just another nigger if I didn't play basketball. I wanted to be white because I was black, and black was never the right colour. I left the table-by-myself-and went to see Madonna. We were in a stairwell, and she was saying, 'You love me. You want to be with me. Leave with me right now and forget your girlfriend.' The Spurs might be more of a basketball team if David Robinson didn't freeze every time they play a big game. You're going to have to find a way to stop me on your own, bro, and nobody's found it yet.

ISBN: 0733800556 (Paperback)

Year: 1996

Publisher: Bantam Books

Pages: 259 (Non-Fiction)

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3. Review of the book

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5. Rotten Tomatoes page for the documentary of the same name

Shaq Attaq! (Shaquille O'Neal & Jack McCallum)

Shaq Attaq!

Shaquille O'Neal & Jack McCallum

Blurb: Shaquille O'Neal is the hottest player to hit the NBA in years, with his combination of incredible talent, versatility, maturity, and charisma.

Scoring a high of 46 points in one game, and already in the record books for scoring and rebounding, Shaquille truly is a star - and it comes as no surprise that he was voted Rookie of the Year.

Now Shaquille opens up to his fans in an unprecedented, no-hold-barred account, to let them know what it's really like to be the new 7-foot, 300-pound kid on the block.

What's it like to be compared at age 21 to Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, among others?

Shaq discusses with complete honesty his fears and apprehensions; what makes him happy (including rappin' with favourite group Fu Schnickens); what makes him sad; what makes him blow his stack - including what really happened on court with Alvin Robertson, and being suspended from the Southeastern Conference Tournament for throwing a punch.

He discusses the influence of his father and mother, and how he needed discipline to avoid becoming a 'juvenile delinquent' when moving from one army base to another while growing up.

A fascinating and candid account by the biggest and brightest star of the NBA, including 8 pages of never-before-seen photos, Shaq Attaq! is the perfect book for all of Shaquille's fans.

Jack McCallum is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, and is author of a previous book, Unfinished Business: On and Off the Court with the 1991-2 Boston Celtics.

ISBN: 1863501665 (Paperback)

Year: 1993

Publisher: Wilkinson Books

Pages: 202 (Non-Fiction)

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1. Shaq Attaq Fansite

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3. Good reads page

4. Shaq's Wikipedia page

5. Shaq's Twitter Page