And with a highly switchable center and lots of interesting wings, they are capable of playing the modern, five-out NBA game and causing problems for opponents on defense. The Nets have a possible All-Star forward in Mikal Bridges, based on how he played down the stretch. Do they have any chance of contending for anything important? No, probably not. Can they be a playoff team going forward with this core? Yes, very likely. Do they have some nice pieces? Absolutely. Hollinger: I think they are in Willy Loman territory - the basketball equivalent of being liked but not well-liked. Before we get into the specifics, what’s your pie-in-the-sky view of Brooklyn since we last did this? Looking ahead, this team has some 2019 vibes with some young guys to retool around, draft compensation as they’ve never had before yet mainly consisting of other team’s picks, and a Ben Simmons problem to the tune of two years and more than $77 million. Once again, it started with title aspirations and ended with a sweep. We have another wild Nets season to break down and their future to discuss. From the Hardcover edition.Schiffer: Hey, John, thanks for doing this. More to the point, he's the only one crazy enough to try to pull it off. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball.Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game's finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons's one-of-a-kind, five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. Nowhere in the roundball universe will you find another single volume that covers as much in such depth as this wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining look at the past, present, and future of pro basketball.From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens-and then closes, once and for all-every major pro basketball debate.
Bill Simmons, the from-the-womb hoops addict known to millions as 's Sports Guy, is that writer. There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to write the definitive book on the NBA.
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