Interdisciplinary Analyses of Professional Basketball

Till Neuhaus is a Researcher at the Faculty of Education, Bielefeld University, Germany. He has also played professional basketball in Europe. Niklas Thomas is a student of English and Sport Science at the University of Münster, Germany. He has published articles on the sport-society-nexus in international peer-reviewed journals.

• 1.Court Inspection – Introduction to the Edited Collection.- Section 1: The Name of the Game – Rules, Strategies, and Regulations.- 2. Rules, Referees and Recruiting Violations.- 3. Born into Failure – A Recontextualization of the WNBA by an Investigation of the ABL.- 4. Rule Changes and Racism in the NBA.- 5. “BANG!”: Language and the Policing of Sexuality in the NBA.- Section 2: For the Love of the Game – Basketball and its Wider Cultural Relations.- 6. On the Development of Kobe Bryant’s Persona.- 7. You Either Got a Wicked Jumpshot or Selling Crack Rocks – On Basketball’s and Hip Hop’s Shared Foundation.- 8. Double-Dribbles, Dunks, and Dice: The History and Cultural Significance of Basketball Board Games .- 9. “What is He, Your Coach?”: Uncut Gems as a Basketball Movie.- 10. Basketball in Young Adult Literature (Liliana Santos) .- Section 3: Basketball in the Age of (Global) Expansion.- 11. The Basketball Show in The North of France - When the NBA Globalized Culture meets TheLocal Carnival Culture (David Sudre).- 12. The influence of NBA overseas pre and post pandemic: The case of Mexico (Luis Barroso) .- 13. A geopolitical firestorm between the NBA and China over a tweet (Michelle Tran).- 14. Marketing the League – A Discourse Analysis of the NBA’s Social Media Handles (Niklas Thomas).