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Mahervellous!
By Boti Nagy Price: $32.95 |
MAHERVELLOUS! chronicles the life and times of the 36ers' greatest player and an icon of Australian basketball. Brett Maher's 18-year, 500+ game NBL career unfolds against the backdrop of every major development in the game in Australia during that time.
From his days growing up in Adelaide's southern suburbs, through life inside the Australian Institute of Sport, national selections, recovering from two career-threatening injuries to both the high times and the low with the 36ers it's all here.His toughest opponent, his greatest achievement, his highs, his lows and the source of his inspiration to be a triple-Olympian, triple-championship winner, dual Larry Sengstock Medallist and multiple All Star - it's all there in MAHERVELLOUS!
About the Author
BOTI NAGY is Australia’s premier basketball journalist, a seven-time winner of the National Basketball League and Women’s National Basketball League’s “Writer of the Year” award. Nominated five times for the National Basketball League’s Hall of Fame, he has covered the NBL and seen every one of its teams in action since the league’s inception in 1979. He has also played, coached and been an administrator in the sport. In his spare time he shoots hoops with his two daughters at Morphett Vale.
Reviews
"Boti Nagy, one of Australia's most decorated basketball writers...has produced one of his finest efforts in a superb new biography, 'Mahervellous!'...Maher has been admired by basketball fans throughout Australia, but this magnificent book also reaches into the personal life of one of SA's outstanding sportspeople...It is a must read for all sports fans, not just those who follow basketball."
- The Independent Weekly
"Brett Maher is one of the class acts of Australian basketball.. - an incredibly detailed biography about a bloke who often played second fiddle (arguably too often) in the national side, but an undoubted Adelaide hero..."
- Inside Sport
"Brett Maher is a rarity in sport - a champion as popular as he is talented. Among Adelaide basketball fans, he is revered, for good reason...Boti Nagy has captured the decency and dignity of Maher...in a book that is much more than a regular biography. It's not just about the 36ers skipper - rather, he is the central character in an intriguing warts-and-all examination of the club and league he has graced...Amid plenty of laughs there are tears too...If you liked Brett Maher before, you'll love him by the book's end."
- The Advertiser - Review Section
"Simply Mahervellous! Books about basketball in Australia and the NBL are a rare commodity and this biography of one of the league’s all-time greats doubles as a pocket history of the sport during Maher’s 18 seasons, three championships and two Larry Sengstock Medal successes...it is a “must-read” for basketball fans and sports lovers generally. But more than just a basketball junkie’s paradise, there is the personal side of Brett’s story as he candidly discusses his family’s devastation in 2003 with the loss of his baby son Hudson to a rare bone marrow disease (HLH).
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- Basketball Australia
"A great read that gives you an iside into not only the life of Brett Maher but the history of the Adelaide 36ers and a lot of the NBL as well.
The book covers off a lot of the locker room stories that are usually never heard outside those walls.
Very light and entertaining book"
- Ben