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''The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy'' is the second book by ESPN columnist Bill Simmons.〔(The Book of Basketball ) ''Amazon.com''.〕 ==Background== Simmons has written under the name “The Sports Guy” for 12 years, 9 of them with ESPN, and currently receives 1.4 million page views per month.〔Zengerle, Jason. (Holiday Bookes: Fans’ Notes ). ''The New York Times''. December 3, 2009.〕〔Leitch, Will. (Hoop Memes: Bill Simmons ). ''New York Magazine''. October 25, 2009.〕 In 2006, he started developing the idea for ''The Book of Basketball'', spending three years reading over 80 books on basketball and watching 400 game tapes.〔〔Bennett, Dashiell. (Bill Simmons’ The Book Of Basketball Is A Sports Book For The Internet Age ). ''Business Insider''. December 19, 2010.〕 Simmons notes that the original premise for the book was to "blow up the Basketball Hall of Fame and reconstruct it like an Egyptian pyramid."〔Pinter, Jason. (Interview with Bill Simmons, Author of The Book of Basketball ). ''Huffington Post''. October 21, 2009.〕〔("The Book of Basketball" – Three-Pointer for The Sports Guy ). ''Bleacher Report''. May 26, 2010.〕 As he continued his research, he realized that there was "no real way to compare players from different eras without a common theme in place."〔 While the book's Hall of Fame-related sections comprise about half the pages used (from 263 to 627, spanning chapters six through 11, in the paperback), the book leads into this by covering several key matters in NBA history. These involve Simmons' recounting of his father (Bill Sr.) purchasing a season ticket for only $4 a game as the Celtics rose and fell and rose (and critically rose when Larry Bird arrived in Boston); a meeting with Simmons' non-fan Isiah Thomas that turned into a surprisingly friendly discussion about "The Secret of basketball"; an overview of how Bill Russell was the greatest center of all-time (and NOT Wilt Chamberlain); a history of how the NBA evolved between 1949 and 1984 into what it is today; dozens of what-if scenarios for the NBA (including "What if the Detroit Pistons had drafted Carmelo Anthony instead of Darko Milicic in 2003?" and "What if the 1984 NBA Draft had unfolded differently?"); and a breakdown of past Most Valuable Player awards that were divided into completely deserving winners (all five trophies won by Michael Jordan), winners who were questionable but ultimately all right (such as Bill Walton's win in 1978) and winners who were travesties of justice (Jordan losing out to Charles Barkley in 1993 and Karl Malone in 1997). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Book of Basketball」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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