Basketball Fun & Games

Basketball Fun & Games
Author: Keven A. Prusak
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780736045162

A collection of fun games and activities for basketball, this text offers an exciting way to build basketball skills and tactical understanding for pre-school children to secondary school pupils.

Basketball Is Fun!

Basketball Is Fun!
Author: Robin Nelson
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1467711020

From dribbling the ball to shooting a basket, basketball is fun! Learn the basics of the sport while building reading skills with these supportive texts.

Basketball Shooting

Basketball Shooting
Author: Dave Hopla
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0736087370

Describes the skills and strategies for effective basketball shooting, covering long-range three-pointers, jumpers, bank shots, and free throws, and includes tips, techniques, and drill exercises for individuals and teams.

Basketball for Fun!

Basketball for Fun!
Author: Brian Eule
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780756504298

Describes the basic rules, skills, and important people and events in the sport of basketball.

Basketball Skills and Drills

Basketball Skills and Drills
Author: Jerry Krause
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2008
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780736067072

Great basketball players like Tim Duncan and Dwyane Wade draw oohs and aahs with their spectacular moves. But before those players developed their superstar flair, they built a solid base of fundamental skills in all phases of the game. Basketball Skills & Drills provides a perfect blueprint for building the foundation that every well-rounded player needs. This special book and DVD package demonstrates each key skill: -Player positioning -Moving without the ball -Shooting -Passing, catching, and dribbling -Perimeter moves -Post moves -Defense -Rebounding The skills and 90 drills, coaching tips, and DVD reinforce the skill instruction, emphasize key points, and explain how to correct common errors. And since individual skills are effective only when used within the team concept, the book also covers key team principles for both ends of the court. Tactics for offense, including special situations such as out-of-bounds plays, will improve spacing, ball and player movement, shot selection, and scoring. Defensive tactics emphasize positioning, pressure, and various systems to apply in each area or level of the court. To be an all-star, you must be fundamentally sound. Basketball Skills & Drills is your guide to becoming a complete player--one who can change the game with great moves and smart play.

It's a Numbers Game! Basketball

It's a Numbers Game! Basketball
Author: James Buckley (Jr.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2020
Genre: Basketball
ISBN: 1426336896

"Math information for kids while learning about basketball"--

Work On Your Game: Use the Pro Athlete Mindset to Dominate Your Game in Business, Sports, and Life

Work On Your Game: Use the Pro Athlete Mindset to Dominate Your Game in Business, Sports, and Life
Author: Dre Baldwin
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2019-02-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1260121399

Your game plan for career success—from International Basketball Pro Dre BaldwinNo one knows how to turn unrelenting self-belief into hard-and-fast career results better than Dre Baldwin. When everyone and everything was telling him to give up on his goal of playing pro basketball, he got focused on his future, and met the challenge head on. In the end, Baldwin succeeded—making a living playing basketball in leagues around the world—and in these pages, he shares all his secrets.Whether you’re just starting out in business or looking to take your career to the next level, Work On Your Game provides the strategy you need to succeed from the inside-out. Dre Baldwin, or “DreAllDay,” as his fans know him, delivers an easy-to-understand four-part model for achieving any goal. It’s based on discipline, confidence, mental toughness, and personal initiative—and it’s proven effective. Baldwin takes you through the steps of identifying what’s expected of you, preparing for what's coming, and conditioning your body and mind for the competitive world of business—and everything is a business.Baldwin’s personal story of beating the odds is both inspiring and instructional. You’ll learn how to play the mental game in a way that launches you towards unparalleled achievement.

Fun, Taste, & Games

Fun, Taste, & Games
Author: John Sharp
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2019-03-12
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0262039354

Reclaiming fun as a meaningful concept for understanding games and play. “Fun” is somewhat ambiguous. If something is fun, is it pleasant? Entertaining? Silly? A way to trick students into learning? Fun also has baggage—it seems inconsequential, embarrassing, child's play. In Fun, Taste, & Games, John Sharp and David Thomas reclaim fun as a productive and meaningful tool for understanding and appreciating play and games. They position fun at the heart of the aesthetics of games. As beauty was to art, they argue, fun is to play and games—the aesthetic goal that we measure our experiences and interpretations against. Sharp and Thomas use this fun-centered aesthetic framework to explore a range of games and game issues—from workplace bingo to Meow Wolf, from basketball to Myst, from the consumer marketplace to Marcel Duchamp. They begin by outlining three elements for understanding the drive, creation, and experience of fun: set-outsideness, ludic forms, and ambiguity. Moving from theory to practice and back again, they explore the complicated relationships among the titular fun, taste, and games. They consider, among other things, the dismissal of fun by game journalists and designers; the seminal but underinfluential game Myst, and how tastes change over time; the shattering of the gamer community in Gamergate; and an aesthetics of play that goes beyond games.

The Book of Basketball

The Book of Basketball
Author: Bill Simmons
Publisher: ESPN
Total Pages: 754
Release: 2010-12-07
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0345520106

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The NBA according to The Sports Guy—now updated with fresh takes on LeBron, the Celtics, and more! Foreword by Malcom Gladwell • “The work of a true fan . . . it might just represent the next phase of sports commentary.”—The Atlantic Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining basketball addict known to millions as ESPN’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.

Pippa Park Raises Her Game

Pippa Park Raises Her Game
Author: Erin Yun
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN: 1944020268

A CONTEMPORARY REIMAGINING OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOR MIDDLE GRADERS Life is full of great expectations for Korean American Pippa Park. It seems like everyone, from her family to the other kids at school, has a plan for how her life should look. So when Pippa gets a mysterious basketball scholarship to Lakeview Private, she jumps at the chance to reinvent herself by following the "Rules of Cool." At Lakeview, Pippa juggles old and new friends, an unrequited crush, and the pressure to perform academically and athletically while keeping her past and her family's laundromat a secret from her elite new classmates. But when Pippa begins to receive a string of hateful, anonymous messages via social media, her carefully built persona is threatened. As things begin to spiral out of control, Pippa discovers the real reason she was admitted to Lakeview and wonders if she can keep her old and new lives separate, or if she should even try.