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  • How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius

  • What Game Designers, Economists, Ballet Choreographers, and Theoretical Astrophysicists Reveal About the Greatest Game on Earth
  • By: Nick Greene
  • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
  • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (37 ratings)

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How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius

By: Nick Greene
Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
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A brilliant, entertaining deconstruction of basketball, drawing on the expertise of board-game creators, magicians, therapists, and more.

Basketball is the second-most popular sport in the world - an insanely complicated game built on a combination of athleticism, craftiness, rules, intangibles, and superstardom. However, while it's enjoyable to watch, the real reason it works is because it's a game of culture, art, and all the things that make us human. How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius deconstructs the sport from top to bottom and then puts it back together again, detailing its intricacies through reporting and dozens of interviews with experts. These experts, however, are a diverse group: wine critics weighing in on LeBron's ability to delegate on the fly, magicians analyzing Chris Paul's mystifying dribbling techniques, cartographers breaking down Steph Curry's deadeye three-point shooting. Every chapter treats basketball to a multi-disciplined study that adventures far beyond the lines of the court, examining key elements of the sport from some surprising and revealing angles. There's a reason it has conquered the world, and every game is a chance to learn about pop culture, fashion, history, science, art, and anything else that bounces our way.

©2021 Nick Greene (P)2021 Tantor
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An amazing book for a casual fan

A wonderfully enjoyable mix of trivia with serious analysis. Fun, insightful, quirky, though at times perhaps too meandering for its own good. If you're a casual basketball fan like me, you're bound to love it.

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Insulting

This author insults religion and asserts his opinion on the COVID-19 pandemic. I never would’ve thought a basketball book would touch on these topics but it did. I wish I could get a refund after listening to a lot of this BS

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