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Author:   Till Neuhaus ,  Niklas Thomas
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2024
ISBN:  

9783031416552

ISBN 10:   3031416554
Pages:   349
Publication Date:   05 January 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1.Court Inspection – Introduction to the Edited Collection.- Section 1: The Name of the Game – Rules, Strategies, and Regulations.- 2. Rules, Referees and Recruiting Violations.- 3. Born into Failure – A Recontextualization of the WNBA by an Investigation of the ABL.- 4. Rule Changes and Racism in the NBA.- 5. “BANG!”: Language and the Policing of Sexuality in the NBA.- Section 2: For the Love of the Game – Basketball and its Wider Cultural Relations.- 6. On the Development of Kobe Bryant’s Persona.- 7. You Either Got a Wicked Jumpshot or Selling Crack Rocks – On Basketball’s and Hip Hop’s Shared Foundation.- 8. Double-Dribbles, Dunks, and Dice: The History and Cultural Significance of Basketball Board Games .- 9. “What is He, Your Coach?”: Uncut Gems as a Basketball Movie.- 10. Basketball in Young Adult Literature (Liliana Santos) .- Section 3: Basketball in the Age of (Global) Expansion.- 11. The Basketball Show in The North of France - When the NBA Globalized Culture meets TheLocal Carnival Culture (David Sudre).- 12. The influence of NBA overseas pre and post pandemic: The case of Mexico (Luis Barroso) .- 13. A geopolitical firestorm between the NBA and China over a tweet (Michelle Tran).- 14. Marketing the League – A Discourse Analysis of the NBA’s Social Media Handles (Niklas Thomas).

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Till Neuhaus is a Researcher at the Faculty of Education, Bielefeld University, Germany. He has also played professional basketball in Europe.   Niklas Thomas is a student of English and Sport Science at the University of Münster, Germany. He has published articles on the sport-society-nexus in international peer-reviewed journals.

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