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    Basketball Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide
    Basketball Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide
    Basketball Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide
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    Basketball Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide

    By Thomas Neumann

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    With fans around the world, basketball is becoming the next global game. Take a front-row seat to everything that makes the NBA great in Basketball Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNorth Star Editions
    Release dateSep 1, 2018
    ISBN9781634940405
    Basketball Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide
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    Thomas Neumann

    Thomas Neumann has been a basketball fan since childhood, when he sat in the upper deck at the old HemisFair Arena to watch the San Antonio Spurs. Neumann is a longtime sportswriter and editor who has worked at ESPN and the San Diego Union-Tribune. He lives in Sarasota, Florida, with his wife and two sons.

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      Basketball Season Ticket - Thomas Neumann

      By Thomas Neumann

      Basketball Season Ticket: The Ultimate Fan Guide © 2019 by Press Room Editions. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, including Internet usage, without written permission from the copyright owner, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      First Edition

      First Printing, 2019

      Book design by Sarah Taplin

      Cover design by Sarah Taplin

      Photographs ©: Tony Dejak/AP Images, cover (bottom left); Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Images, cover (top), 33; Sue Ogrocki/AP Images, cover (bottom right bottom), 95; Eric Gay/AP Images, cover (bottom right top); janniwet/Shutterstock Images, cover (center background); AP Images, 4, 12, 22, 25, 46, 49, 56–57; Empics Sports Photo Agency/Press Association/AP Images, 7; Stephan Savoia/AP Images, 9; Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press/AP Images, 11, 79; Warren M. Winterbottom/AP Images, 15; John Rooney/AP Images, 18; Ray Stubblebine/AP Images, 21; Mark J. Terrill/AP Images, 29; Kevin Reece/Icon Sportswire/AP Images, 34; Reed Saxon/AP Images, 37, 51; John Swart/AP Images, 41; Morry Gash/AP Images, 45; Jeff Roberson/AP Images, 53; Massimiliano Ferraro/NurPhoto/Sipa USA/AP Images, 54; Peter Halpern/AP Images, 61; Lynne Sladky/AP Images, 63; Jim Mone/AP Images, 64; Michael O’Brien/AP Images, 68; Michael Caulfield/AP Images, 71; Ross D. Franklin/AP Images, 74–75; Frank Franklin II/AP Images, 76; Ann Heisenfelt/AP Images, 81; Kathy Willens/AP Images, 85; Jeff Reinking/AP Images, 86; Susan Ragan/AP Images, 89; Tony Gutierrez/AP Images, 92; Red Line Editorial, 96–97

      Design Elements ©: Shutterstock Images

      Press Box Books, an imprint of Press Room Editions

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2018940604

      ISBN:

      978-1-63494-035-1 (paperback)

      978-1-63494-040-5 (epub)

      978-1-63494-045-0 (hosted ebook)

      Distributed by North Star Editions, Inc.

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      Printed in the United States of America

      Chapter 1

      Opening Tip

      It started with two peach baskets on December 21, 1891.

      A physical education teacher named James Naismith needed a game for his students to play. So he nailed the containers to opposite ends of a balcony in a gymnasium in Springfield, Massachusetts. Naismith then assembled two teams of nine players each and instructed them to throw a soccer ball into the opposing team’s basket in order to score a point.

      When he blew his whistle, his students began the first game of what was then called basket ball.

      It was a moment that would change the sports world forever, but the early results weren’t pretty. As Naismith remembered it, several players received black eyes, one suffered a separated shoulder, and another was knocked unconscious.

      The boys began tackling, kicking, and punching in the clinches, Naismith said years later. They ended up in a free-for-all in the middle of the gym floor.

      This wasn’t at all what Naismith had in mind. He wanted to invent a game that could be played indoors during the winter and promote fitness with a low risk of injury to players. Naismith would modify the rules, most importantly by requiring ball handlers to dribble the ball, rather than allowing them to run with it.

      That stopped tackling and slugging, Naismith recalled. We tried out the game with those rules, and we didn’t have one casualty.

      The first public exhibition of the sport was held in the same gym on March 11, 1892. A team of students defeated Naismith and a group of teachers by a score of 5–1. In those days, someone would have to fetch the ball out of the basket following each score—either from the balcony or with a ladder.

      In the following years, peach baskets were replaced by iron hoops and nylon nets, and participation would

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