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While the starting lineup of an NBA team consists of five players,
there are at least 12 on each roster. Allocating time on court to
keep each of them satisfied is challenging. Theoretically the worst
position on the roster is the sixth man-so close to being the
starter yet seeming to be the odd man out. This book aims at
dispelling that notion, presenting many important players who
through the years came off the bench for NBA teams, proving that
despite not starting, they were worthy of playing in the best
basketball league in the world.
This book analyzes career narratives of selected prominent NBA
players after the Michael Jordan era, understood as the time after
his second retirement in January 1999. It was a pivotal time for
the league, as Jordan became synonymous with NBA basketball and the
face of its global expansion. The players discussed in the book
have been selected because of the significance of their career
narratives, as all of them correspond with certain archetypes,
prevalent in the world not only of professional basketball, but of
professional sports in general. The private and public personas of
eight players as well as their depiction by the media are analyzed
not only regarding their success on the basketball court, but also
in light of what they have come to represent for the modern NBA.
The players discussed in this book are Shaquille O'Neal, Alonzo
Mourning, Vin Baker, Allen Iverson, Antoine Walker, Steve Nash, Tim
Duncan, and Kobe Bryant. Collectively, these eight players embody
the distinguishing character profiles and career arcs of sports
superstars with dominance, individualism, and athleticism being as
much parts of sports star culture as egotism, injuries, boredom,
addiction, and bankruptcy.
The three-point shot has been an NBA institution for more than 40
years, with the first long-distance bombs fired on October 12,
1979. The game has since changed dramatically. Critics today
contend that three-pointers have gotten out of hand. Attempts rose
from 2.8 per game in the 1979-1980 season to 18.4 in 2011-2012 to
32 in 2018-2019. Charting this development, this volume focuses on
examples of 12 performances by 12 exceptional shooters-with mention
of many more. Starting with Chris Ford and ending with Steph Curry,
the author shows how these athletes have changed the NBA one shot
at a time.
The 2018 Netflix series Altered Carbon is a vital contribution to
the cyberpunk renaissance, among such titles as Snowpiercer or
Blade Runner 2049. This collection of new essays answers the
question: is this increasing popularity of cyberpunk a sign of
recognition of the genre's transgressive aspects, such as a stark
critique of capitalism, or is it the opposite-a sign of the genre's
failure to successfully criticize modernity? The contributors
consider the series as taking on current issues, from a critique of
neoliberalism, through the ethical aspects of biotechnology, up to
thanatology. They provoke questions about what it means to be human
in a world in which death does not exist. Essays evaluate the
surging popularity of the series and cyberpunk at large from a
variety of critical perspectives, shedding new light on a
challenging and inventive series.
A sense of impending doom surrounded the New Jersey Nets. No matter
how well things were going for the perennial underdogs, something
would go wrong sooner or later--injuries, bad trades, inner
conflicts. But if the Nets were never a stable organization, it
made following them as entertaining as it was painful. The team's
2012 move to Brooklyn was supposed to make a clean break with their
past. That past was in fact rich and eventful, filled with heroes,
often unfairly vilified or underappreciated. Shedding new light on
the careers of such figures as Julius Erving, Buck Williams, Sam
Bowie, Derrick Coleman, Stephon Marbury, Jason Kidd and Vince
Carter, this book celebrates a team of strong-willed individuals
whose best efforts always ended in heartbreak.
Following the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona and the success and
celebrity of the Dream Team, the NBA became a global sensation.
Around the same time, and despite ardent warnings from his parents,
Arthur Griffiths purchased an NBA team that would become the
expansion Vancouver Grizzlies. Who better to restore the Dream
City, he thought, than the NBA? Expansion franchises went to
Vancouver and Toronto—the Canadian cities of choice as the NBA
grew its international brand. But while Toronto thrived under the
rising star of Vince Carter, Vancouver floundered under serial
mismanagement. Six seasons wasted, the Grizzlies relocated to
Memphis, where they clawed their way to victories both on the court
and in the hearts of the city’s eager fanbase. More than two
decades later, the Memphis Grizzlies continue to win, claiming NBA
records for defeating, as an eight-seed club, the one-seed San
Antonio Spurs in the 2011 playoffs (only the fourth franchise to
have done so) and for defeating, in 2021, the Oklahoma City Thunder
152–73, the largest margin of victory in NBA history. So why did
the NBA fail in Vancouver but thrive in Memphis? This is the
question Łukasz Muniowski seeks to answer in The Grizzlies Migrate
to Memphis: From Vancouver Failure to Southern Success. In his
pursuit, he explores how the Vancouver Grizzlies came to be, the
team’s evolution and eventual relocation to Memphis, the success
the Grizzlies found there, and the differences between the two
phases of this NBA franchise. Rooted strongly in media coverage of
the Grizzlies franchise in both Vancouver and Memphis, The
Grizzlies Migrate to Memphis offers a thoughtful blend of
storytelling and analysis that will interest scholars and NBA
enthusiasts alike.
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