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FreeDarko presents The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac: Styles, Stats, and Stars in Today's Game
REVIEWS Play Magazine, The New York Times"It's at this intersection [of poetry and prose] that the fabulously eccentric and gloriously illustrated Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac resides. Written by the pseudonymous authors of the FreeDarko blog, with a foreword by the N.B.A . oddball ...
FreeDarko presents The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac: Styles, Stats, and Stars in ...
amazon.com — Amazon.com Review The Macro-Phenomenal NBA Almanac is a one-of-a-kind guide to the NBA and its most charismatic players. The almanac breaks down the styles of each player to show what each man reveals about himself through his conduct both on and off ... (more) FreeDarko presents The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball ...
A Macrophenomenal Look at Gilbert Arenas
A Macrophenomenal Look at Gilbert Arenas
voices.washingtonpost.com — Macrophenomenal swag. And Antonio Daniels. (By Jonathan Newton - TWP) By now, you've no doubt heard of FreeDarko Presents...The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac, a kind of NBA compendium for people who like Gilbert Arenas. The back of the ... (more) A Macrophenomenal Look at Gilbert Arenas
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Better Living Through Focus: A Review of Free Darko's Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac
Hardwood Paroxysm — ... It's strange, because the other reviewers I've seen are clearly caught off guard by Free Darko's patented density and weight, by the enigmatic approach to the game that doesn't rely on fanhood, rationality or pragmatism. For many, it's a groundbreaking form of sports writing that they've never seen before, likely because they haven't been to FreeDarko much. I can't really give that review. I'm an avid reader and fan. It's hard to be an NBA blogger that started after 2006 and not be a little bit in awe of Shoals and Co. And it would be a disservice to my readers to provide a ...

Free Darko Presents The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac: Buy it ... Now
The Sporting Blog — ... You can read many of the book’s reviews for yourself, or you can just listen to me when I tell you it’s outstanding. And I don't like the NBA. I can’t even watch an entire game, yet I can thoroughly enjoy The Macrophenomenal’s essay on Leandro Barbosa, for example, a player I don’t care about, and honestly, have never had much interest in watching play the game of basketball. Yet this book makes his story, style, and speed interesting to me, the non-fan. And if it speaks to me, it will no doubt speak to the diehards, as ...

FreeDarko Presents The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac: Buy it ... Now
The Sporting Blog — ... You can read many of the book’s reviews for yourself, or you can just listen to me when I tell you it’s outstanding. And I don't like the NBA. I can’t even watch an entire game, yet I can thoroughly enjoy The Macrophenomenal’s essay on Leandro Barbosa, for example, a player I don’t care about, and honestly, have never had much interest in watching play the game of basketball. Yet this book makes his story, style, and speed interesting to me, the non-fan. And if it speaks to me, it will no doubt speak to the diehards, as ...

Rasheed Wallace: Taking Advice From FreeDarko Since 2008
Alana G — ... ), but what little I've read has been excellent and fascinating, as I'm sure you've already heard. So naturally, when I was hanging out with Sheed the other day, I had to ask him what he thought about the analysis of FreeDarko's crack team: ...

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