THE BOOK OF BASKETBALL: THE NBA ACCORDING TO THE SPORTS GUY
Book ID/图书代码： 01240010B35903
English Summary/英文概要： There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to write the definitive book on the NBA.* Bill Simmons, the from-the-womb hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.com’s Sports Guy, is that writer. And The Book of Basketball is that book.
Nowhere in the roundball universe will you find another single volume that covers as much in such depth as this wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining look at the past, present, and future of pro basketball.
From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens–and then closes, once and for all–every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons’s one-of-a-kind, five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball.
Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game’s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.
* More to the point, he’s the only one crazy enough to try to pull it off.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 世界上只有一个人同时拥有最丰富的篮球知识和热情来写这本关于NBA的书，那就是Bill Simmons，这个生来就独具篮球细胞的ESPN体育台主持人。这本书便是他的著作。
世界上再没第二个人可以像作者这样对篮球有如此精通和深刻的见解，同时又能够从娱乐的角度专业地分析篮球的过去、现在和未来。
书中探讨了例如比尔拉塞尔和张伯伦的单挑谁会赢、哪支球队是史上最强等问题。Simmons提出并解答了所有专业球迷会争论的问题。作者还进一步讨论了NBA名人堂选择球员的标准以及联盟应将球员按金字塔形进行排列：Simmon将96位史上最优秀的球员分成五个等次。最后他也刊载了自己与球迷的对话。
本书文字简单易懂、具有权威性、提出的问题可引发人们各种思考、幽默风趣。本书让球迷坐到最佳观赛位子来观看最有趣和激烈的比赛。(LN)
Awards/获奖情况：Simmons，人称体育小子，是ESPN.com的老牌评论员。他为各种比赛撰写文章，他最爱的是家乡球队波士顿凯尔特人队。没有人能像他那样写关于体育的文章。既有讽刺意味又包含尊敬，幽默，自我辩驳，充满忧愁，这些都可以用来形容作者。NBA让他写出了最好的作品，可能是因为他将人的个性和文化以及球队的传奇捏合在一起的独特方式。这本超过七百页的巨著既有历史的记述也有数据的分析。Simmons总结了联盟的历史，讨论了他个人的喜好，包括了一堆“如果......会怎样？”的问题（如果迈克乔丹当年去了波特兰而不是公牛队会怎样？），分析了MVP的去向选择，也分析了史上最佳球员们的职业生涯。真正的NBA粉丝都会爱上本书，闻着啤酒喝披萨的味道，一边品评NBA的历史、相关观点、轶事、数据和一堆例子。真的很有趣。——Wes Lukowsky，《书目》
2009年10月当选Amazon最佳畅销书。这部巨著让James Naismish博士非常自豪，甚至可能脸红。本书作者Bill Simmons是ESPN.com的“体育小子”，他用幽默的风格、专业的分析和丰富的脚注提出了对NBA的真知灼见。Simmons自己首先是个球迷——这一点在Malcolm Gladwell所写的序言中可以看到——他以球迷的心态写作，而不是新闻人。他对篮球的知识和热情并没有为他带来很多朋友，但是却让他能够为同样是狂热球迷的人说话。因此本书不仅仅是对英雄的赞扬，也是为了那群狂热的球迷而写。书中包含大量的统计数据。以上种种都是球迷必须购买此书的理由。——Dave Callanan, Amazon.com评论
About the Author/作者介绍： Bill Simmons为ESPN.com第二版撰写“体育小子”专栏，还有ESPN的杂志。他曾出版《现在我能瞑目了》，创立了bostonsportsguy.com网站，为Jimmy Kimmel直播写文章。他往来于洛杉矶的家和芬威球场。 Bill Simmons writes “The Sports Guy” column for ESPN.com’s Page 2 and ESPN: The Magazine. He is the author of Now I Can Die In Peace, founded the award-winning bostonsportsguy.com website, and was a writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live. He commutes between his home in Los Angeles and Fenway Park.
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