Bill Simmons – författare

Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell   Newly updated with fresh takes on LeBron, Kobe, the Celtics & more*Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining basketball addict known to millions as ESPN.com’s The Sports Guy, has written the definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA. 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.*Including even more footnotes!From the Trade Paperback edition.

Robert Candell is devastated when his close friend and mentor, Jack Marsel, suddenly dies. Robert is soon hired by a mysterious organization known only as "the group" and learns that his friend Jack had secretly worked for this mysterious group. Robert and the group work to stop the corporate greed that is destroying our environment and hope to provide a better world for our future generations.When disaster strikes, due to corporate greed, Robert and the group must work to make those corporate executives who they hold responsible for the disaster pay for their actions and send a message to other corporate executives that the destruction of the planet and our ecosystems will no longer be tolerated.Twist and turns take the reader through secret groups, clandestine meetings, international intrigue and adventure, corporate greed, political corruption, earth changes, and global climate change.Who is this mysterious group that has the ablility and the determination to take on the government, corporations, and the global elite? What is the Fourth Star?

En El libro del basket, una obra absolutamente única, el prolífico, ingenioso e hilarante Bill Simmons abre —y cierra, de una vez por todas— todos los debates sobre la NBA. Desde la eterna pregunta de quién ganó la histórica rivalidad entre Bill Russell y Wilt Chamberlain, hasta qué equipo merece realmente el título del mejor de todos los tiempos. Todo ello sin olvidar grandes "¿y si...?", como qué habría pasado si Portland hubiese seleccionado a Jordan en lugar de a Sam Bowie en el draft de 1984, o si Memphis, y no Cleveland, hubiera reclutado a LeBron en 2003. Pero Simmons no se detiene ahí: se atreve a reevaluar completamente no solo los criterios para elegir a los miembros del Salón de la Fama de la NBA, sino también a proponer una reconstrucción total de la institución. El resultado es "la pirámide", un santuario de cinco niveles que celebra a los 96 jugadores más grandes en la historia del baloncesto profesional. Finalmente, Simmons, creador de auténticas catedrales del periodismo deportivo como Grantland o The Ringer, nos guía al corazón del baloncesto para desvelarnos ese elemento tan codiciado y enigmático: el secreto del baloncesto.