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From writer Ben Detrick and artist Andrew Kuo, a vibrant, unconventional, highly opinionated guide to the triumphs, joys, struggles, and heartbreaks of the modern era of the game, for every obsessive basketball fan who loves to hate hot takes.Foreword by Desus NiceThe Joy of An Encyclopedia of the Modern Game celebrates the meteoric rise of basketball over the last quarter century by ignoring the bland, traditionalist binary of wins or losses. Instead, the book’s focus is on everything else. Using text, charts, and illustrations that upend conventional jock wisdom, the book details the most incredible players in history, draft flops, long-limbed oddballs, superteams, the international talent wave, brawls, scandals, the rapid evolution of contemporary gameplay, coaching, fashion, crime, positional erosion, tragic tales, memes, and the sacred Kardashian Blessing.Bouncing between witty graphics and keen sociopolitical observations, The Joy of Basketball is a subversive sports manifesto camouflaged as a colorful reference book for your coffee table.
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The Joy of Basketball, Ben Detrick, Andrew Kuo, Desus Nice
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2021
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- Titel
- The Joy of Basketball
- Untertitel
- An Encyclopedia of the Modern Game
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Ben Detrick, Andrew Kuo, Desus Nice
- Verlag
- Abrams
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2021
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 352
- ISBN10
- 1419754823
- ISBN13
- 9781419754821
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Handbücher und Anleitungen, Sport, Biographien, Basketball
- Beschreibung
- From writer Ben Detrick and artist Andrew Kuo, a vibrant, unconventional, highly opinionated guide to the triumphs, joys, struggles, and heartbreaks of the modern era of the game, for every obsessive basketball fan who loves to hate hot takes.Foreword by Desus NiceThe Joy of An Encyclopedia of the Modern Game celebrates the meteoric rise of basketball over the last quarter century by ignoring the bland, traditionalist binary of wins or losses. Instead, the book’s focus is on everything else. Using text, charts, and illustrations that upend conventional jock wisdom, the book details the most incredible players in history, draft flops, long-limbed oddballs, superteams, the international talent wave, brawls, scandals, the rapid evolution of contemporary gameplay, coaching, fashion, crime, positional erosion, tragic tales, memes, and the sacred Kardashian Blessing.Bouncing between witty graphics and keen sociopolitical observations, The Joy of Basketball is a subversive sports manifesto camouflaged as a colorful reference book for your coffee table.