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Monday, February 14, 2011

Book review: The Art of a Beautiful Game, by Chris Ballard

Posted on 11:59 AM by Unknown
This review is a re-post of it's original entry from our sibling book review site, Books with Balls.You may think that Dwight Howard's a monster rebounder because at 7 feet and one inch, 265 pounds and with steel springs for legs he's the NBA's most perfect physical specimen since Chamberlain.But you're wrong.Because Big Ben Wallace, the Pistons' 6'8 fireplug centre rebounds just as well, age and
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