Courtside: 40 Years of NBA Photography

Nathaniel S. Butler has spent four decades on the sidelines of the NBA, and this book is the record of everything he witnessed. From Ray Allen's corner three to championship clinchers with Jordan, Kobe, and Curry, Butler's lens captured the moments that defined professional basketball—not just the spectacle, but the stillness between plays, the locker room candor, the quiet weight of legacy.

Courtside collects the breadth of that archive into a single, authoritative volume, accompanied by commentary from Patrick Ewing, Steph Curry, Jeremy Lin, Victor Wembanyama, and others who lived those moments alongside him. Published by Abrams in 2024, this hardcover edition runs approximately 320 pages—a photographer's memoir told entirely in images, and an essential document of the sport's rise over the last forty years.