The National Basketball League (NBA) is the world's premier professional basketball league for men. Each year, the best basketball teams in the league compete in a tournament to determine the NBA champion.

When a prince is murdered, a legendary swordsman stands accused.The King wants blood . . .and loyalty counts for nothing.Belasko thought he was beyond intrigues and machinations. But when the grief-stricken King demands vengeance, Belasko discovers he is expendable. His options are clear... find the real killer or satisfy the royal bloodlust. With the forces of the palace mobilised against him he is thrust into the city's bleak underbelly and must...

There were never such devoted sisters...Things are far from simple in the noisy, warm-hearted Bertalone family. Carmina is the quintessential extrovert with beaus flocking to her side like bees round a honeypot - all except Luc Fabriani. For some unaccountable reason, he seems to prefer Carmina's sister. Gina has always been quiet and shy, the apple of her over-protective parents' eye, so she believes her sister when Carmina spreads malicious rumors...

Following the staggering loss suffered in their adventure with the Avengers, the Champions decide to double down on their mission to make the world a better place - and that means it's time for a membership drive! Some of the best and brightest young superhumans in the Marvel Universe - including Red Locust - turn up to be Champions for a day! But who will make the grade as the new order changes? And how long will they last when - following a series...

Also collects Champions Annual #1. The Champions' mission in space during Infinity Countdown has left its mark, and now the team must try to move on. A chance to bring life back to a desolate village might be just what they need - or it might push them even farther apart! While Iron heart and Amadeus Cho take giant leaps forward in their heroic journeys, Nova takes a step back. As the team faces a complicated and dangerous threat, Sam Alexander wonders:...

When Lucas Silver, who is trying to run away, and his friend Miles and two girls they know, Jasmine and Vanessa, step out of Hob and Bogie's Olde Curiosity Shoppe, they discover that they have agreed to play a match of Champion's Quest, a role-playing game--played from inside the game with goblins, trolls, witches, and a three-headed monster.

Using statistics and math calculations, this instructional and entertaining volume explores the extraordinary achievements of Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Stephen Curry, and Kevin Durant, putting their careers in context with other NBA legends. Along the way, each of these calculations is explained and discussed, bringing the worlds of sports and math together. In addition to a biographical look at their careers, these four players are compared head-to-head...

The gripping conclusion to The Avant Champion Series by award-winning author CB Samet ... Seven stones. A dark wizard. And the final quest. Abigail must repair the fractured stone within Malos's scepter to restore peace. To do so, she'll have to travel across the globe to collect the magical Che stones. With the help of an ancient apparition and a headstrong thief, she embarks on her quest. But the world is in chaos and peril lurks at every passage....

This enlightening book compares the lives and careers of four great women's tennis players: Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Maria Sharapova and Martina Navratilova. Each of these women is a legend, but which of these on-court superstars is the GOAT, or the greatest of all time? Using basic math and analytical principles, readers will learn to sort out what makes each of these four great champions unique and to draw conclusions about their relative...

The last competition Belasko won was the catch a slippery pig contest at his village fair.Now he has to beat the best warriors in the kingdom. Belasko, a farm boy who ran away to war, is a decorated soldier and war hero with a good military career ahead of him. When Markus, champion to the king of Villan, summons Belasko to take part in the competition to choose his successor, a world of possibility opens up to him. Possibility that Belasko cannot...