Expensive Basketball 

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - One of Barnes & Noble's Best Sports Books of 2025. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Rap Year Book and Basketball (and Other Things), this book delivers a clever and inventive examination of basketball’s most iconic players, moments, and games, featuring original illustrations by Ian Klarer. Basketball counts everything—stats, numbers, metrics—but some moments remain beyond calculation. Some are poetry, art, and pure feeling. Expensive Basketball captures those moments, from the final 196 seconds of Kobe Bryant’s career to Sue Bird’s backpedal, from the quiet menace of Tim Duncan to the Larry Bird memory carousel. An unforgettable affirmation of emotion over metrics.