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patvulaj's review
4.0
This book is a labor of love if you are a big-time NBA fan, and I probably wouldn’t be able to recommend it to anyone other than myself because I don’t know anyone else who would want to read this deep into the history of the NBA, but I love the book and I love Bill Simmons.
fredcthulhu's review
5.0
Bill Simmons writes as a fan. He has a big bias to Celtics teams (I thinks this is a big plus). Very great way to learn about the history of basketball. I was very unfamiliar with anything that didn't happen between 1990 and 2003. Between this and Simmon's ESPN column I have rediscovered my liking of the NBA.
balrog's review
3.0
I learned a lot and the prose style made it a breeze to read but my god it should have been edited to be half its length and with 10% of the (now extremely dated) pop culture references and jokes.
nao921's review
4.0
knew it before going in, Simmons always has lots to say. Long book and it really gave me great insights on the history of the game
sandin954's review against another edition
3.0
The author's highly opinionated take on the greatest players in NBA history etc. Like most of his work, far too long with many juvenile rambling asides. I did enjoy his views on the players and their place in the history of hoops though and thought his pyramid scheme for rating them was quite well thought out.
kintha's review
3.0
Simmons is pretty knowledgeable about basketball, but his writing is much better suited to columns than books, let alone gigantic tomes. A book like this, that exists to make comparisons and create hierarchies needs to use language in a consistent way. He doesn't.
leslielu67's review
3.0
Whew! I read every page (700+) and every footnote (700+). This guy watches a lot of basketball. And TV. And movies. Not only did I get a basketball education, but I also got a pop culture retrospective from the past 50 years. I enjoyed his analysis of players based on his own made-up stats, including "stocks",and the wine cellar best team ever to save earth from the aliens.
ohsodeluxe's review against another edition
4.0
If you are into American basketball, this is a must-read book: informative, entertaining, funny, well written. And you do not even need a deep knowledge of the sport to appreciate it.