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The Basketball 100 Audiobook, by David Aldridge Play Audiobook Sample

The Basketball 100 Audiobook

The Basketball 100 Audiobook, by David Aldridge Play Audiobook Sample
Release Date: November 26, 2024
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Read By: Jamie Lincoln Smith Publisher: HarperAudio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 13.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 10.38 hours at 2.0x Speed
Release Date: November 26, 2024
Series: The Sports Series Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780063329140

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

107

Longest Chapter Length:

22:14 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

13 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

11:38 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

A celebration of basketball by way of the 100 greatest players to ever grace the court in the history of the NBA—from The Athletic’s foremost basketball writers and analysts the game has to offer.

Over the course of 100 luminous player profiles, the best sports newsroom on the planet paints vivid portraits of the game’s most compelling characters. There’s George Mikan, who was cut from his high school team because he wore glasses, then went on to become the fledgling NBA’s first transcendent star. Gary Payton, called “The Glove” for his skintight defense, who talked as much trash to his teammates as he did to his opponents on the court. Dennis Rodman, who started playing basketball at age 20, and in a few short years went from working as a janitor at the airport to being one of the strangest superstars that sport has ever known. Allen Iverson, who drew inspiration from hip hop for his inimitable style and swagger, on and off the court. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who was so dominant in the paint that they changed the rules—and Steph Curry, who was so dominant outside it that he seemed to expand the very boundaries of the court.

The Basketball 100, edited by award-winning reporters David Aldridge and John Hollinger, also answers the game’s toughest, most important questions: How should we weight championship rings, versus statistical profiles, versus the “eye test”? Were the great players of yesteryear, like Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell, propelled by the inferior athleticism of their competition or would they have been transcendent in any era? And of course, who’s the GOAT—MJ or LeBron? Speaking of GOATs, for the book, Hollinger (inventor of the statistical metric PER) has created a new benchmark, GOAT Points.

Wonderfully written, authoritative, and full of joy, The Basketball 100 is a fitting tribute to the greatest sport in the world.



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The Athletic has built the world’s largest sports newsroom by focusing on deep reporting, expert analysis, and unmatched journalism to drive its storytelling. It recently became a part of the New York Times company.