The Best Stuff I Read Or Saw Or Heard All Year, 2022 Edition

Books

1. The Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam
2. Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made by David Halberstam
3. Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s by Jeff Pearlman
4. The Five Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman
5. Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters by Harold Evans
6. Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty by Jeff Pearlman
7. The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy by Bill Simmons
8. Tanking to the Top: The Philadelphia 76ers and the Most Audacious Process in the History of Professional Sports by Yaron Weitzman
9. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur
10. When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks by Harvey Araton
11. The Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End by Gary Pomerantz
12. The Jordan Rules: The Inside Story of One Turbulent Season with Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls by Sam Smith
13. Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin’ and Gunnin’ Phoenix Suns by Jack McCallum
14. When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World by Leon Festinger
15. What Pro-Wrestlers Are Showing the Audience by Yoshihiro TAJIRI

Movies

1. The Batman
2. Everything Everywhere All At Once
3. Nope
4. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
5. Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers
6. Entergalactic
7. Apollo 10 1/2
8. Banshees of Insherin
9. Moonage Daydream
10. Hustle
11. Glass Onion
12. Elvis
13. Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
14. Turning Red
15. Ariel Phenomenon

TV Shows

1. Better Call Saul (Season 6)
2. Andor (Season 1)
3. The Rehearsal (Season 1)
4. Stranger Things (Season 4)
5. Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (Season 1)
6. Reboot (Season 1)
7. Snowfall (Season 5)
8. Peacemaker (Season 1)
9. The Patient (Season 1)
10. The Righteous Gemstones (Season 2)
11. Murderville (Season 1)
12. Young Rock (Season 2)
13. South Side (Season 3)
14. Archer (Season 13)
15. Mr. Mayor (Season 2)