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Expensive Basketball

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By Shea Serrano

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On Sale
Oct 28, 2025
Publisher
Hachette Audio
ISBN-13
9781549163272

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$27.99

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  1. Audiobook Download (Unabridged) $27.99
  2. Hardcover $30.00 $39.00 CAD

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Rap Year Book and Basketball (and Other Things), a witty & fun reexamination of some of the most iconic—read: “expensive”—players, moments, and games from the NBA. 

Everything in basketball is measured. Everything in basketball is counted, quantified, and computed. And yet, no matter how expansive the list of various pinpoint-specific statistical categories gets, some basketball things remain uncountable or unquantifiable.

Some moments are more poetry than calculation, rising to art than numerical value. More feeling than data processing. And thus: Expensive Basketball.

From Kobe’s 81-point game to Sue Bird’s crossover, from the majesty of Ray Allen’s legendary 3-pointer to the beautiful mystery of Allen Iverson, Expensive Basketball is an affirmation of feelings.

It’s an affirmation of basketball as virtuosity. It’s an affirmation of how sometimes you watch a person perform on the basketball court and it feels the same way it does when you lie in the grass at night and stare up at the moon for long enough that you start to think about how incredible it is that you really, truly, honestly, actually exist.

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Shea Serrano

About the Author

Shea Serrano is an author, journalist, and podcaster. He’s the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Rap Year Book, Basketball (And Other Things), Movies (And Other Things), and Hip-Hop (And Other Things). He lives in Texas with his family.

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