The best of the NBA

The book opens with the NBA's best and brightest top stars including Shaquille O'Neal, David Robinson, Hakeem Olajuwon, Alonzo Mourning, and Patrick Ewing. There is a chapter chronicles of the greatest basketball player of all time, Michael Jordan and traces basketball's ultimate rivalries:Bill Russell vs Wilt Chamberlain and Larry Bird vs Magic Johnson. A survey of the game's origins chronicles great moments in the college game including Oscar Robertson, Bob Cousy, Elgin Baylor, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Julius Erving. NBA milestones such as Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point game and the longest NBA game ever played, are covered as are the great dynasty teams-The Boston Celtics, The Los Angeles Lakers, and the Chicago Bulls All of this is illustrated in copious photographs and told in exciting anecdotal form by Jack Clary. For basketball fans young and old, The Best of the NBA has it all-all of the excitement and color that draws crowds to the hardwood-court action year after year. The stars, the legends, the great moments-all of this and more can be found in this book