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Greatest Stars of the NBA #2
Tim Duncan
Profiles the basketball player who was first draft pick in 1997 and won two NBA titles with the San Antonio Spurs.
91 pages, Paperback
First published November 9, 2004
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December 19, 2014
Overview:
Biography about a professional basketball player named Tim Duncan, and how well he did in his early years of his career. Tim Duncan is 6 feet and 11 inches and currently he is 38 years old and still in the NBA. The book covers Tim Duncans rookie stats, playoff stats and some of his best game stats. It’s basically an info book, but there is more than enough to make it worthy as a book.
Prime Chapters and Structural Quirks:
The structure of the book reflects Tim Duncan as a player and as a teammate. How it shows that is the book has quotes from players that were on other teams and faced against him, and there are quotes from Tim’s players saying how much of a team player he was and how he never ball hogged or any of that stuff. One of the other teams coaches said that they could never stop Tim because he was so good at the game and that even though they knew what he would do, Tim always changed it up and made sure that they couldn’t stop him.
Logic and Truth About The Book:
In my opinion the book wasn’t a 10 out of 10 for me, it was more like a 5 out of 10 and the reason why it was because even though the book had a lot of good information containing stats about Tim and how he got his awards and how he lead the Spurs to multiple playoffs and other players, coaches, and even his own teammates opinions about him, I thought the book could of had more information about him like how he got in the NBA or information on how he did in highschool or college mainly stuff like that could of made this book great but it was to short and had little information about him besides his rookie year. Also I think that the author should of been a lot less comic with this book and what I mean by that is not containing each page with a bunch of pictures and not containing their own opinion about Tim and how great he was, all they really did was prove how great he was they never added the most important details like when he was drafted and his bad games they just took his best games and just added comments on how great he was but he wasn’t as great as he mentioned.
In my opinion if you are looking for information about Tim Duncan then this book is definitely not the right information you need, I suggest looking it up on the internet there is probably tons of information on just one site rather than 10 books that are short about him. The truth is this was not a well written book and doesn’t deserve any praise about it besides a few things which aren’t huge things.
Comparisons:
I read some other books by these authors and they were the same thing as this book, I read one about Kevin Garnett and the other about Jason Kidd and all it was about was their rookie stats and playoff stats and their best games and quotes from players and coaches nothing more so I don’t recommend trying any books by this author because they are just terrible. The author of the book was Jon Finkel.
Biography about a professional basketball player named Tim Duncan, and how well he did in his early years of his career. Tim Duncan is 6 feet and 11 inches and currently he is 38 years old and still in the NBA. The book covers Tim Duncans rookie stats, playoff stats and some of his best game stats. It’s basically an info book, but there is more than enough to make it worthy as a book.
Prime Chapters and Structural Quirks:
The structure of the book reflects Tim Duncan as a player and as a teammate. How it shows that is the book has quotes from players that were on other teams and faced against him, and there are quotes from Tim’s players saying how much of a team player he was and how he never ball hogged or any of that stuff. One of the other teams coaches said that they could never stop Tim because he was so good at the game and that even though they knew what he would do, Tim always changed it up and made sure that they couldn’t stop him.
Logic and Truth About The Book:
In my opinion the book wasn’t a 10 out of 10 for me, it was more like a 5 out of 10 and the reason why it was because even though the book had a lot of good information containing stats about Tim and how he got his awards and how he lead the Spurs to multiple playoffs and other players, coaches, and even his own teammates opinions about him, I thought the book could of had more information about him like how he got in the NBA or information on how he did in highschool or college mainly stuff like that could of made this book great but it was to short and had little information about him besides his rookie year. Also I think that the author should of been a lot less comic with this book and what I mean by that is not containing each page with a bunch of pictures and not containing their own opinion about Tim and how great he was, all they really did was prove how great he was they never added the most important details like when he was drafted and his bad games they just took his best games and just added comments on how great he was but he wasn’t as great as he mentioned.
In my opinion if you are looking for information about Tim Duncan then this book is definitely not the right information you need, I suggest looking it up on the internet there is probably tons of information on just one site rather than 10 books that are short about him. The truth is this was not a well written book and doesn’t deserve any praise about it besides a few things which aren’t huge things.
Comparisons:
I read some other books by these authors and they were the same thing as this book, I read one about Kevin Garnett and the other about Jason Kidd and all it was about was their rookie stats and playoff stats and their best games and quotes from players and coaches nothing more so I don’t recommend trying any books by this author because they are just terrible. The author of the book was Jon Finkel.
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