Coach Harris Basketball

Unfortunately for UK coaches, finding basketball coaching books is a lot more difficult that just walking down to your local WH Smith and checking out the sports section. In the US however, the story is different. Every time I travel to America I make an effort to get to a couple of decent bookstores. Barnes and Noble and Borders (dead in the UK but very much alive across the pond) both have great sports sections with a wealth of basketball books, covering both coaching and biographical subjects. Listed below are the books I’ve bought when visiting the US, as well as those I’ve managed to find on Amazon or picked up second-hand. The list is always expanding and I hope to begin adding short reviews for each one.

Books

• :07 Seconds or Less (Jack McCallum)
• Allen Iverson: Fear No One (John N. Smallwood Jr)
• Basketball (Laszlo Nemeth)
• Basketball’s Half-Court Offense (John Calipari)
• Basketball For Women (Nancy Lieberman-Kline/Robin Roberts)
• Basketball Skills (Vincent M. Mallozzi)
• Beyond Basketball (Mike Krzyzewski/Jamie K. Spatola)
• Coaching Basketball (Jerry Krause/Ralph Pim)
• Coaching Basketball Successfully (Morgan Wootten)
• Coaching High School Basketball (Bill Kuchar)
• Court Sense (John Giannini)
• Let’s Talk Defense (Herb Brown)
• Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich (Mark Kriegel)
• Playing the Post (Burrall Paye)
• Rebound Rules: The Art of Success 2.0 (Rick Pitino)
• Sacred Hoops (Phil Jackson)
• The Book of Basketball (Bill Simmons)
• The Essential Wooden (John Wooden/Steve Jamison)
• The Last Season (Phil Jackson)
• The Jordan Rules (Sam Smith)
• The Score Takes Care of Itself (Bill Walsh)
• The Smart Take from the Strong (Pete Carrill)
• The Women’s Basketball Book (Women’s Basketball Coaches Association)
• Top of the World (Peter May)
• When the Game was Ours (Jackie McMullan)