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After 12 years of playing basketball at the highest professional level, Brian Grant could have been forgiven for thinking that the hardest part of his life was behind him, that he'd be able to kick back and enjoy the fruits of his considerable labors. But soon after his retirement from the NBA, Grant was diagnosed with Young-Onset Parkinson's Disease, ushering in a challenge greater than any he'd faced before. In Rebound, Grant shares his remarkable life before, during, and after those NBA years with no shortage of compassion and wit.

The LA Lakers have long been one of the NBA's most exciting teams. In The Show, critically acclaimed sportswriter Roland Lazenby brings the story of this charismatic team to life in an unprecedented oral history, featuring such legendary players as Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Magic Johnson, along with current stars like Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant.

If you want to learn how to coach girls' high school basketball, then learn from Shane Reinhard who has real-life experience coaching girls' basketball at the high school level. Here's what you will learn inside the book: illuminates the positive and negative realities of coaching girls' basketball at the high school level; discusses a variety of ways to improve basketball skill development on your team; and much more!

Among many legendary episodes from the life and career of men's basketball coach Dean Smith, few loom as large as his recruitment of Charlie Scott, the first African American scholarship athlete at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Drawn together by college basketball in a time of momentous change, Smith and Scott helped transform a university, a community, and the racial landscape of sports in the South.

At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming. Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope. Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance at a better life: a free college education if they would come play for his basketball team, the Cardinals. Despite their fears of leaving home and the sacrifices faced by their families, the women followed Babb and his dream.

Legendary University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith tells the full story of his fabled career and shares the life lessons taught and learned over 40 years of unparalleled success as a coach and mentor.

Experience Jeremy Lin’s rise to basketball superstar, free for a limited time! Who would have thought that an Asian-American, who stood just 5' 3" tall as a freshman in high school, and eventually went to Harvard to major in economics, would become the NBA's most talked about star in decades? But that's exactly what happened to Jeremy Lin. Undrafted out of college and subsequently waived in short order by both the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets, Lin was signed by the underachieving New York Knicks. The rest is history.

Behind every success, there’s a story. On “The Tuff Juice Podcast with Caron Butler,” the universally respected NBA champion, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and activist — who survived a life of crime in his youth and built himself up with hard work — sits down with accomplished and influential guests from the worlds of sports, entertainment, business, and activism to discuss how they achieved success. The conversations are incredibly revealing and entertaining but also educational, with Caron highlighting lessons learned, so listeners can apply them to their own lives and find their ...

Follow along as Jaron and Austin dive into their crazy lives and their many experiences to help figure life out. Jaron Blossomgame is a former NBA player currently living his dreams playing in Europe. Austin Eastman is an NBA agent and investor. Together they have spent years having fun, screwing up, and growing up. This is a ride you won’t want to miss, so get ready to lower your expectations.

The basketball life on the UK side of the pond. Luke Allen, Brandon Cockerill and Stanley Eaton have big makes, bad takes and playoff debates talking basketball around the world and in the NBA. Here, Every week.

Explore the successes and failures of NBA athletes & executives when the stakes are high. We're talking about what’s really happening when the game is on the line. Hosted by - Omar Usman, a lifelong NBA fan who thinks Hakeem is the GOAT, and loves thinking about how principles of leadership, teamwork, and decision making manifest themselves in the NBA And Mohamed Hussein, an entrepreneur and obsessed NBA fan who knows Kobe is the GOAT. He enjoys exploring the corollaries between sports and business.

The Red Storm Chasers podcast is a place where St. John's basketball fans can do what they do best...worry, talk and obsess about all things St. John's. Listen as Vincent, Craig, Nick and Tim breakdown the news, games, highlights and lowlights of the season as well as interview members of the St. John's basketball family. Let's go Red Storm!

Doc Rivers: The Inspiring Life and Leadership Lessons of One of Basketball's Greatest Coaches, you will learn the story of one of basketball's premier coaches, Doc Rivers. Doc Rivers is often lauded as one of the top coaches in the NBA, and with good reason. In his first season as the head coach of the Orlando Magic in 1999, Rivers took a team that was projected to finish last in the league to a near playoff birth. That "Heart and Hustle" Orlando Magic team would put Doc Rivers on the map.

Teresa Edwards has won more Olympic medals than any other basketball player in history with four golds and one bronze. She is the youngest woman to win a gold medal in basketball - and the oldest. She’s a WNBA pioneer and has been inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Now, for the first time, she shares the story of her greatest loss - and her most incredible victory.

Your New Orleans Pelicans Insiders will bring you inside, up-to-date information straight from the source. Jim Eichenhofer, Pelicans.com writer, and Gus Kattengell will come through your speakers 3x a week to give you the very latest on Pelicans NBA basketball.

Carmelo Anthony & The Kid Mero chop it up about today's biggest basketball stories, forgotten moments from Melo’s iconic NBA career, and the latest in entertainment alongside special guests. New episodes drop every Thursday. A Wave Sports + Entertainment Original. Executive produced by Creative 7.

There are 2.2 billion basketball fans in the world. That’s over a quarter of the entire population of the world! There are so many fans because basketball is more than just a game. For many, it is a way to root for their favorite players–to live vicariously through these players who can fly through the air. And for others, basketball is the way to a better life.

Once a month Book Club that meets Playback and focuses on NBA, Basketball and analytics content with a Sacramento Kings fan viewpoint. Join the discussion group : https://www.playback.tv/nbaclub other content : https://linktr.ee/nbabookclub

This book covers the topic of arguably the best basketball player to ever exist, Michael Jordan. This book documents the entire life of Jordan to date, including his early childhood, his college days, his sporting achievements, and even his life after retirement from the game. You will soon discover what sets this basketball star apart from the rest, and what made him (and his brand) such a dominating force in the world of sports.

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