Basketball Book Notes

It's a big month for basketball book coverage on The Painted Area, as we've already previewed David Falk's new book The Bald Truth and reviewed Seth Davis's new book When March Went Mad, on the Bird-Magic 1979 NCAA Championship game.Last fall, we offered a preview of basketball books for '08-09 in general, and we've picked up a few odds & ends that we wanted to add to that list. Here we go:New Ric Bucher BookOn a recent podcast with Bill Simmons, ESPN's Ric Bucher noted that he was working on a book that offered "an inside look at various jobs around the league," and said that he had spent time with a GM right at the trade deadline. I think this book has the promise to be pretty good, as it sounds like Bucher might have gotten the access to really see the details of how the sausage is made in terms of how trades are made, or how they fall apart, among other things. I would also say that I think this type of longform reporting/storytelling ...