THE BOOK OF BASKETBALL PAGE
by Bill Simmons


** You can purchase the Book of Basketball's paperback at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble or Random House. Because paperbacks tend to run longer than hardcovers, I tightened the hardcover by about 35 pages, then added additional material, new footnotes and fresh takes on LeBron, Howard, Kobe, Wade and Allen, and a revised Hall of Fame Pyramid. The hardcover was 706 pages; the paperback is 704 pages.

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The Book of Basketball's multimedia interactive guide is up and running. Created by Austin Bell, this index allows you to follow up on any magazine articles, games, plays, You Tube clips or anecdotes mentioned in TBOB (with the links corresponding to the paperback's pages). Many thanks to Austin for his hard work getting the guide going. If we're missing any links that you like, or if one of the links is dead, e-mail Austin at bookofbasketball@gmail.com.

** An artist named John Alexander
created an oil canvas painting of the top-50 players in my Hall of Fame Pyramid. Still trying to figure out how to make it for sale.

** The Book of Basketball reached No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list for nonfiction hardcover books for the week of
November 15, 2009.

** Now I Can Die In Peace (my first book, about following the Red Sox from a fan's perspective through the 2004 World Series) was re-released in paperback with eight new pieces from 2005 to 2008. You can find it on
Amazon.com.