The Basketball Maniac's Almanac

""In The Basketball Maniac's Almanac, you can find all kinds of ridiculous associations and comparisons and silly (wonderful?) NBA facts without doing more than turning a page. Take the book with you (yeah, you need a big bag because it's 542 pages), and be the hero of your buddy's man cave or the star at the next bored-guys-at-a-cocktail-party-kitchen-hang. . . . The thing is, you don't need anybody else around to enjoy this block of fun. Just sit back by yourself and start checking out one unusual stat after another."" --SLAM magazine ""The Basketball Maniac's Almanac hit the right chord with me, a hoops maniac for 70-plus years. I guess it's the one book you'd want with you when stranded on a deserted island, since you could never quite finish it! To see Wilt all over the book illustrates how amazing he was. And yes, I do miss the Waterloo Hawks--who doesn't?!"" --Ira Berkow, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of How Life Imitates Sports and Baseball's Best Ever ""Some books are perfectly titled, and this is one. Basketball maniacs (or any sports nuts, actually) can find out fascinating things they never knew they needed--and wanted--to know, or that anybody kept track of. Oldest player with an 800-rebound season? Check. Fewest blocks in a season by an MVP? Got it. Most points by a player who never averaged 20 points in a season? Of course! Get lost in this book. I did."" --Rick Telander, senior sports columnist, Chicago Tribune; and author of Heaven is a Playground ""A must-have!"" --HoopsHype.com ""In these days with everything available online, very few books are necessary to own a hardcopy of. I would argue that any real basketball fan must own a copy of The Basketball Maniac's Almanac. I should say at least one copy, since friends will want their own. . . . This is living, breathing trivia and history and pure basketball gold. . . . If you're young, you will enjoy the analytics, and hopefully, learn the history. If you're old, these lists will serve as ""brain exercises"" to boost memory and retain mental skills."" --Elliott Kalb, author of Who's Better, Who's Best in Basketball and best known as ""Mr. Stats"" ""This is a book you want in your Man Cave when you're watching an NBA game on TV and somebody wants to know the most far-fetched bit of trivia imaginable. . . . The editors of Sports Publishing gathered every piece of statistical information about NBA players that one can imagine, and more. This baby is crammed with stuff you want to know along with some that you don't care to know. . . . I had fun with this. If you like the NBA and statistics, you will, too."" --Kerry Eggers, veteran journalist and author of Jail Blazers