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Not A Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson by Kent Babb

June 3, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

Statistically and anecdotally, there are dozens of better players in NBA history than Allen Iverson. Iverson was famous for low percentage shots, inefficient passing and turnovers. His usage rate was outrageously high for someone whose effectiveness was questionable. When his hellbent driving skills worked, his layups and dunks looked like masterpieces. But his game was always more appreciated from an aesthetic perspective. So no, Allen Iverson was not the best player to play basketball. Not by a long shot. But in terms of cultural influence […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Sports Tagged With: #biography, Allen Iverson, basketball, Kent Babb, Philadelphia 76ers, sports

Jake's CBR12 Review No:95 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Sports · Tags: #biography, Allen Iverson, basketball, Kent Babb, Philadelphia 76ers, sports ·
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Trust the Process

Tanking to the Top: The Philadelphia 76ers and the Most Audacious Process in the History of Professional Sports by Yaron Weitzman

May 25, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

As I said a few weeks ago in my review of Ethan Sherwood Strauss’ superb The Victory Machine: thank the living Lord for sports books written by people my age. What a balm. No Michael Jordan narratives. No “back in my day, them fellas didn’t have the interwebs.” It’s simply inconceivable to boomers that people my age remember a world before its wide web, a time before social media, and can in fact conceive of a history that predated our existence. Anyway, enough of that. There’s […]

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: basketball, Ben Simmons, Business, Joel Embiid, NBA, Philadelphia 76ers, Sam Hinkie, Tanking to the Top, Yaron Weitzman

Jake's CBR12 Review No:92 · Genres: Sports · Tags: basketball, Ben Simmons, Business, Joel Embiid, NBA, Philadelphia 76ers, Sam Hinkie, Tanking to the Top, Yaron Weitzman ·
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