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I'm glad Jonathan brought up the sexism, because, well, it's pretty astounding (this from a guy writing next to the stripper pole at Deadspin HQ). Tommy Craggs "The Secret: A hopelessly banal point about chemistry and sacrifice." 12/10/09 at 12:00 Sam Anderson: Good-bye to the soul-searching, the Vonnegut references, the Iverson jokes. Ben Mathis-Lilley: We can’t knock Simmons as an overcompensating tourist in hip-hop culture. Tommy Craggs: Placing the NBA in the heart of a certain kind of white-bread Americana. Jonathan Lethem: Let me try a small stunt here.

Sherman Alexie: The Last Great White American Player Syndrome? Bethlehem Shoals: I'm reluctantly raising an issue that could swallow up this discussion whole. Sam Anderson: I think Bill Simmons is a very good writer. Ben Mathis-Lilley: Some thoughts on the book's horrible sexism. Tommy Craggs: The Secret: A hopelessly banal point about chemistry and sacrifice. Jonathan Lethem: I felt starved for something booklike in this book-resembling object. Bethlehem Shoals: Simmons mistakes going too far, and wallowing in excess, for taking risks. Sherman Alexie: The genius of Simmons: He is an obsessive-compulsive basketball populist. Sam Anderson: The inconsistency drives me crazy. Sam Anderson: The wisdom, the blasphemy, the stripper anecdotes. 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.