Nick Greene (@NickGreene), author of HOW TO WATCH BASKETBALL LIKE A GENIUS: What Game Designers, Economists, Ballet Choreographers, and Theoretical Astrophysicists Reveal About the Greatest Game on Earth (Abrams Press), joins the podcast to discuss his new book. Nick deconstructs the sport from top to bottom and puts it back together again, detailing its intricacies through reporting and dozens of interviews with experts. These experts, however, are a diverse group: a soap opera casting director weighing in on the game’s most prolific floppers, magicians analyzing Chris Paul’s mystifying dribbling techniques, cartographers breaking down Steph Curry’s deadeye three-point shooting, and so many more. Every chapter treats basketball to a multi-disciplined study that adventures far beyond the lines of the court, examining key elements of the sport from some surprising and revealing angles. There’s a reason it has conquered the world, and every game is a chance to learn about pop culture, fashion, history, science, art, and anything else that bounces our way.
Get Nick's book HOW TO WATCH BASKETBALL LIKE A GENIUS wherever books are sold.
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