Basketball Drama

“A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.”—Kansas City Star Rabbit, Run is the book thatestablished John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero...

The inside story of how A League of Their Own—one of the most beloved baseball movies of all time—developed from an unheralded piece of American history into a perennial cinematic favorite. Featuring exclusive interviews and behind the scenes memories from the original cast and creators.No...

NBA journalist Yaron Weitzman lays out the high stakes drama happening inside the Lakers' organization as they try to juggle the warring priorities between LeBron James and the Buss family. When LeBron James signed with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2018, it looked like a match made in heaven. Here...

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST A vibrant and intimate novel about growing up, first love, and all the joy and heartbreak of competitive high school basketball, from the Lambda Literary Award–winning author of I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself “Deeply affecting . . . Crane’s writing...

ESPN’s Tim MacMahon goes behind the scenes of Luka Dončić’s years with the Dallas Mavericks—before his trade to the Lakers stunned the basketball world—telling the story of a franchise’s quest to build a championship team around a prodigy. In 2018, the Dallas Mavericks landed the...

Darby Kane, the author of the critically acclaimed and #1 International Bestseller Pretty Little Wife, has crafted another gripping and twisty suspense about an invitation to an exclusive club that comes with deadly consequences. They meet the second Tuesday of every month and vote…and then...

In Metrovale, basketball isn’t just a game — it’s a fault line. When a doctored video ignites a citywide scandal, rising NBA star Jalen “Skyline” Redd becomes the face of a controversy he didn’t create. Overnight, he’s accused of point‑shaving, targeted by a shadowy betting syndicate, and dragged into a fan war that splits the city in half. Inside the arc, Jalen dominates. Beyond the arc, WNBA legend Arielle “The Architect” Vega reigns supreme. Together, they become unwilling symbols of a cultural battle neither asked to fight. As the league launches an investigation and...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Rap Year Book and Basketball (and Other Things), a clever and inventive examination of some of basketball's most iconic players, moments, games, and more. Everything in basketball is measured. Everything in basketball is counted, and...

2024 Winner Gold Moonbeam Award: Best Chapter Book Series Ace basketball player, T.D. Lake, is about to break the school record for the all-time highest scoring player. He is good-really good. But with untamed talent comes arrogance. With plenty of games left in the season, T.D. knows breaking...

Penny Wallace knows bodies. As a sports physical therapist, she spends her days helping injured athletes trust theirs again. Trusting her own body is a little more complicated. Penny is smart, successful, funny, and fully capable of shutting down a room with one sarcastic comment. Humor has always been her safest defense. Laugh first. Make the joke better. Never let anyone know when the comment actually hurts. And her family has supplied plenty of material. Too big for that dress. Maybe skip dessert. Men like a certain type. Fat girls never get the man. Penny learned to laugh along years ...

A sweeping and revelatory history of basketball, drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews with the greatest players, coaches, executives, and journalists in the history of the game. In an effort to tell the complete story of basketball in all its fascinating dimensions, acclaimed authors...

Diana Brooks knows how to keep an entire basketball team performing under pressure. She manages the bench, anticipates emergencies, and creates hydration blends that have earned her one unforgettable nickname: the Hydrated Hotty. Her carefully organized world starts spilling everywhere when Anthony Mims gets traded to Houston. Anthony is talented, arrogant, and angry at everyone, including the woman trying to keep him from cramping on national television. After their first clash goes viral, team management forces them to work together at youth clinics. Diana expects more arguments. She ...

They were never supposed to make it this far. Rookie point guard Jordan Keller entered the WNBA with dreams of success—but no one expected her to lead the Phoenixes on an improbable championship run. Not the analysts. Not the fans. Not even Jordan herself. In the high-pressure world of playoff basketball, Jordan finds herself navigating more than just defensive traps and championship expectations. She's also falling—hard—for Camille Robinson, the team's brilliant PR Director, a woman just as fierce behind the scenes as Jordan is on the court. Their connection grows in stolen moments ...

It’s the college basketball finals and someone’s killing the girls in the Bellair Landing apartment complex and leaving unusual calling cards – a mascot doll from the losing team. Laurel goes undercover to break the case but she finds more suspects than she can count and not enough clues. With an overprotective captain breathing down her neck and looking for any excuse to pull her from the case, Laurel doesn’t have time for a relationship. Just her luck, she ends up with not one, not two, but several suitors. Which one is the killer?

At nineteen, Tyrell Washburn has everything—an NBA contract, a signature shoe deal, and a future brighter than the arena lights he plays under. Until the night his body collapses on the court… and the world watches a rising star fall. Diagnosed with an aggressive cancer that threatens not only his career but his life, Tyrell is forced into a fight he never trained for. The headlines turn brutal. The sponsorships turn cold. And the world that once cheered his name now wonders if he’ll survive long enough to take another shot. But Tyrell isn’t alone. With Jada—the woman who refuses ...

When young TaSean Prince is unexpectedly summoned to Miami by a cousin he hasn’t seen since childhood for a basketball tournament, the lure of a sizable cash prize winds up being too lucrative an offer to pass up. Once in town, the Brooklyn-born baller catches the eye of stunning local model Nina Ortiz. The two hit it off somewhat, but TaSean quickly falls back after learning Nina is taken, deciding instead to turn his affections toward an equally good-looking mixed girl he meets later on named Alexus. 

Ethan Walker was born with a gift—lightning‑fast instincts, a killer jump shot, and a future everyone could see coming. Scouts whispered his name. Coaches built entire seasons around him. His rise felt unstoppable… until the night everything shattered. A devastating injury steals the momentum he worked years to build. A girl he trusted reveals she loved his future, not his heart. And the world that once celebrated him suddenly feels impossibly quiet. But Ethan’s story doesn’t end with the fall. With the help of the people who truly see him—his loyal best friend Tyler, his ...

Amiyah Cranshaw has spent her whole life chasing the echo of a bouncing ball—through neighborhood courts, late‑night practices, and the pressure‑cooker spotlight of rising stardom. On the brink of becoming the next face of women’s basketball, she carries the weight of expectation from coaches, fans, and a family that believes greatness is her destiny. But success comes with shadows. As Amiyah’s talent propels her into national attention, she must navigate jealous teammates, ruthless recruiters, and a media machine hungry for a narrative—whether it lifts her up or tears her down....

From the author of the USA TODAY bestseller and Reese’s Book Club Pick The Three Lives of Cate Kay comes an enthralling new novel about a young filmmaker who bets her career on making a film about the forgotten story of a women’s basketball pioneer to the silver screen, honoring the women...

Available for the first time in the United States, acclaimed novelist Benjamin Markovits’s Playing Days is a mostly autobiographical narrative concerning the author’s season playing minor league professional basketball in Germany and the love affair with another player’s estranged wife...