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Here are some of the best basketball books, best basketball podcasts, and best basketball film that are must haves for coaches if you want to be great.

Books
- Culture Code and Talent Code – Daniel Coyle
- Eleven Rings – Phil Jackson
- Tools of the Titans – Tim Ferriss
- Quiet Strength – Tony Dungy
- Stealing Fire – Steven Kotler & Jamie Wheal
- The Art of War – Sun Tzu
- The Gold Standard – Coach K
- Thinking fast and slow – Daniel Kahneman
- Win Forever – Pete Carroll
- My Life on a Napkin – Rick Majerus
- How Lucky You Can Be – Don Monson
- The Wisdom Lunch Warrior – Rod Olson
- The color of Law – Richard Rothstein – If you’re coaching basketball you need to understand systemic racism
- Sprawlball – Kirk Goldsberry
- Anything Malcolm Gladwell, but Outliers or The Tipping Point are very applicable to coaching

Podcasts
- The Basketball Podcast
- Knuckle Heads podcast
- Tony Robbins Podcast

Film / videos
- All Access Basketball Practice with Mark Few – Basketball — BasketballCoach.com”>All Access Basketball Practice with Mark Few – Basketball — BasketballCoach.comMark Few and Gonzaga Practice film
- Ron Hunter practice film – His zone is really good, and it goes over that.
- Rick Pitino 4-Pack – Basketball — BasketballCoach.com”>Rick Pitino videos – These are great, the dude knows hoops