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Before March Madness
Big money NCAA basketball had its origins in a many-sided conflict
of visions and agendas. On one side stood large schools focused on
a commercialized game that privileged wins and profits. Opposing
them was a tenuous alliance of liberal arts colleges, historically
black colleges, and regional state universities, and the competing
interests of the NAIA, each with distinct interests of their own.
Kurt Edward Kemper tells the dramatic story of the clashes that
shook college basketball at mid-century-and how the repercussions
continue to influence college sports to the present day. Taking
readers inside the competing factions, he details why historically
black colleges and regional schools came to embrace
commercialization. As he shows, the NCAA's strategy of co-opting
its opponents gave each group just enough just enough to play
along-while the victory of the big-time athletics model handed the
organization the power to seize control of college sports.
An innovative history of an overlooked era, Before March
Madness looks at how promises, power, and money laid the
groundwork for an American sports institution.
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Basketball now! : the stars and stories of the NBA
\"The greatest players in the NBA... NOW! Like Hockey Now! and Football Now!, Basketball Now! has earned its place as an anticipated release, giving fans the inside stories about their favorite superstars. This third edition is packed with 130 action images and 50 profiles, including a fresh crop of young players whose swagger and skills launched them to league-wide stardom. Bona fide superstars, rim-rocking rookies and future Hall of Famers, plus the all stars of tomorrow, the best international imports and the underrated players that can change a game -- they're all here. Look out for elite names like Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Giannis Antetokounmpo, James Harden, LeBron James, Kawhi Leonard and many, many more! Author Adam Elliott Segal gives readers an inside tour of all things NBA, including essays on the Draft, the Dunk Contest and the best clutch and playoff performances in the history of the league, as well as a summary of MVPs (regular season, All-Star Game and Finals) up to the end of the 2018-19 season. Mind-boggling athleticism, career-changing plays and pure magic -- Basketball Now! has it all, straight from the hardwood.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Interim information and managerial risk taking in professional basketball
This paper examines whether the substitution decisions, under conditions of paper (or realized) losses, stimulate (or moderate) managerial risk taking. Using data on roster changes and field goal attempts (FGAs) in National Basketball Association (NBA) games, I find strong evidence of the significantly causal effects of paper and realized losses (or gains) on the decisions regarding managerial risk taking. While coaches increase their level of risk taking after experiencing the paper losses of lagging behind in the substitution strategy within a game, the effects of realized gains from leading wins, however, offer evidence of higher risk-seeking in the wake of prior wins. Furthermore, the evidence that players lagging behind increase their risk taking in the final stages of the tournament is robust in empirical settings for the shooting decisions. Finally, a coach with longer tenure engages in higher risk taking in substitutions, whereas a team with an older coach of shorter tenure engages in more risk taking in risky 3-point FGAs.
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Breaking barriers : a history of integration in professional basketball
\"This book charts the progress of integration in basketball, from the first black professional basketball player in 1902 to the modern game played by the likes of Stephen Curry and LeBron James. These crucial steps in the history of basketball are placed within the larger context of American history, making this book an essential addition to the literature on sports and race in America\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Disgrace of Commodification and Shameful Convenience: A Critical Race Critique of the NBA
This essay positions sport as a pedagogical social institution from which people learn about race, gender, power, and privilege. The National Basketball Association is examined closely with a critical race lens with regard to the commodification of Black masculinity. A critical race analysis reveals the sharp contradictions between the league's progressive image as an \"industry leader\" of racial diversity (Lapchick, Bustamante, & Ruiz, 2007, p.l) and the actualization of league discourse, policy, and practice.
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Black ball : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the generation that saved the soul of the NBA
\"Against the backdrop of ongoing massive resistance to racial desegregation and increasingly strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation's imagined descent into disorder. The press and the public blamed young Black players for the chaos in the NBA, citing drugs, violence, greed, and criminality. The supposed decline of pro basketball became a metaphor for the first decades of integration in America: the rules of the game had changed, allowing more Black people onto a formerly white playing field, and now they were ruining everything. But Black Ball argues that this much-maligned period was pivotal to the rise of the NBA as the star-laden powerhouse we know today, thanks largely to the efforts of Black players in challenging the white basketball establishment of owners, coaches, and spectators. Spotlighting legendary players like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bernard King, and Connie Hawkins, scholar Theresa Runstedtler expertly rewrites basketball's \"Dark Ages,\" weaving together her deep knowledge of the game's key icons and institutions with incisive social and political analysis of the era. Black ballers created an aerial, improvisational, and creative style derived from the playground courts of their neighborhoods, laying the foundation for the explosive popularity and profitability of the league in subsequent decades. They also transformed labor in the pro-basketball world, filing lawsuits and organizing unions to demand better salaries and greater autonomy. Without their skills, style, and savvy, there would be no Michael Jordan, Allen Iverson, or LeBron James today\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Generations: Academic and Athletic Integration of a Southern PWI Basketball Program
Purpose: The purposes of this study were to: (a) analyze the insights and experiences of the 1st African American student-athlete (in basketball) at a prominent predominantly White institution in the Deep South as well as the later insights and experiences of his sons at the same university; and (b) to present a counterstory to the dominant historical rendering of the Civil Rights Movement, the integration of athletics, and the experiences and outcomes of contemporary African American athletes. Method: Using qualitative critical race methodology, investigators conducted and analyzed interviews with the 1st African American to play basketball at a prominent university located in the Deep South and his 2 sons who attended the same university a generation later. Results: Using the lens of critical race theory, the themes conceived from the analysis were the counterstory of agency, counterstorytelling stereotypes, and the salience of everyday racism. Conclusion: Racism is still existent within society, even within college athletics. The holistic success of African American athletes in college is dependent upon their ability to navigate overt and covert racial climates.
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If Lin Can : how Jeremy Lin inspired Asian Americans to shoot for the stars
\"This picture-book biography encourages children to look to the story of Jeremy Lin, the first NBA basketball player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent, for inspiration and empowerment\"-- Provided by publisher.
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