Basketball (and Other Things)

Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated is a 2017 book written by Shea Serrano^[1] and illustrated by Arturo Torres, with a foreword from former NBA star Reggie Miller.^[2]

Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated

First edition
Author	Shea Serrano
Audio read by	Sean Crisden
Illustrator	Arturo Torres
Language	English
Series	And Other Things
Release number	1
Subject	Basketball
Publisher	Abrams Image, Tantor Audio
Media type	Print (Paperback), Audiobook
ISBN	978-1-4197-2647-7 (Paperback)

Development and publication history

Basketball (and Other Things) was published by Abrams Image on October 10, 2017. It is the second collaboration between Serrano and Torres, following their 2015 New York Times best-seller The Rap Year Book.^[3] Basketball (and Other Things) shares a title with a previous email newsletter from Serrano and Torres;^[4][5] begun in March 2016,^[6] the newsletter had over 30,000 subscribers as of May 2016.^[7]

When pre-sales opened on Amazon for Basketball (and Other Things) in February 2017, the book hit number 13 on the site's bestseller list.^[8] When Barnes & Noble announced in June that they were producing a special edition to include basketball cards with the book sold only in their stores, Basketball (and Other Things) made it to number one on Barnes & Noble's Top 100 Bestselling Books list.^[9]

In November 2017, the book reached number one on The New York Times Best Sellers list for sports and fitness books.^[10]

On December 31, 2017, former United States President Barack Obama listed Serrano's book^[11] as one of his favorite books of the year, a "bonus for hoops fans."

Chapters

The start of each of the book's 33 chapters has a full-page illustration of an iconic jersey of a player who wore the chapter's number,^[12] except for chapter 18 which features an illustration of the fictional action-movie character John Harder, played by James Harden.

Chapter	Jersey
01	Oscar Robertson
02	Moses Malone
03	Allen Iverson
04	Adrian Dantley
05	Jason Kidd
06	Julius Erving
07	Pete Maravich
08	Kobe Bryant
09	Tony Parker
10	Walt Frazier
11	Isiah Thomas
12	John Stockton
13	Wilt Chamberlain
14	Bob Cousy
15	Vince Carter
16	Bob Lanier
17	John Havlicek
18	John Harder
19	Willis Reed
20	Gary Payton
21	Tim Duncan
22	Clyde Drexler
23	Michael Jordan
24	Rick Barry
25	Mark Price
26	Kyle Korver
27	Zaza Pachulia
28	Arron Afflalo
29	Paul Silas
30	Stephen Curry
31	Reggie Miller
32	Magic Johnson
33	Larry Bird

References

1. Puckett, Jeffrey Lee (May 18, 2017). "Twitter shout-out gives bookstore more orders than it gets in year". USA TODAY. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
2. "Basketball (and Other Things) A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated". Abrams Books. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
3. Bustillos, Esteban (19 May 2017). "Growing up with violence, Dallas artist wants to inspire kids to persevere | Visual Arts". Dallas News. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
4. Wolf, Cameron (August 16, 2016). "Arturo Torres on Turning Athletes and Musicians Into Superheroes With Shea Serrano". Complex. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
5. Eakin, Marah (26 May 2016). "Former Grantland scribe casts hilarious aspersions at State Farm's Hoopers commercials". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
6. Crucchiola, Jordan (2016-05-30). "The King Of Twitter: Shea Serrano Is Our New Favorite Internet Hero". GOOD Magazine. Retrieved 2017-06-11.
7. Solis, Manuel (May 31, 2016). "Arturo Torres Delivers Kirby-esque Kawhi". San Antonio Current. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
8. Biasotti, Tony (March 10, 2017). "Q&A: How Shea Serrano went from middle school science teacher to NYT bestselling author". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
9. results, search; Miller, Reggie (2017-10-10). Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated. Arturo Torres (Illustrated ed.). Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 9781419726477.
10. "Sports and Fitness Books - Best Sellers - The New York Times". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-11-05.
11. Serrano, Shea (2017-12-31). "WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTpic.twitter.com/RXdbQ6ougE". @SheaSerrano. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
12. Stanton, Charlie (2017-11-03). "Ten reasons to buy Shea Serrano's new book "Basketball (and Other Things)"". Golden State Of Mind. Retrieved 2018-04-09.