- Description
- xvii, 389 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "This book shows how France and its colonial connections have been central to the global spread of the NBA and WNBA, and demonstrates how basketball has been used as a source of sports diplomacy in Franco-American relations"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "I didn't go to France to play basketball" -- Basketball in crisis -- Emulating an idol -- Triangulating foundations -- New Waves -- From the Dream Team to Sydney -- Renaissance man Boris Diaw -- Transatlantic champion Sandrine Gruda -- "We did it!" : Nicolas Batum and Marine Johannès -- Representing Paris Diandra Tchatchouang and Evan Fournier -- From Cholet to the NBA -- Youth pipelines -- "Rubbing shoulders" with African basketball -- Contributions to the NBA and WNBA -- La vie en bleu.
- ISBN
- 9781350384187
- 1350384186
- 9781350384170
- 1350384178
- 9781350384194 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781350384200 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023020295
- OCLC
- YBP 2023020295
- Author
Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah, 1977- author.
- Title
Basketball empire : France and the making of a global NBA and WNBA / by Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff.
- Publisher
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
- Copyright Date
©2023
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
Online version: Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah, 1977- Basketball empire London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023 9781350384194 (DLC) 2023020296