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What: “Six Times as Sweet,” by Jan Hubbard

Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers (111 pages)

Cost: $16.95

In “Six Times as Sweet,” Jan Hubbard, who works in the NBA’s publishing division, revisits last spring’s NBA finals between the Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz, promising a look at the path the Bulls took to get their sixth title, as well as a review of the other championship teams.

Unfortunately, he spent too much time on the finals, which are still fresh in the minds of most sports fans. The book would have been better if it had devoted more pages to what might have been the farewell season of the Bulls as we know them.

I had hoped the book would reveal things that hadn’t been reported during the regular season or playoffs, perhaps new player interviews or a look at what the Bulls went through off the court and on the road during the season.

Instead, “Six Times as Sweet” does nothing more than replay the big plays, throw in some statistics and state the obvious.

Hubbard apparently understood the problem, writing, “[Michael Jordan] has challenged writers all across the country for his entire career. How many different ways can you write that a man is great?”

Apparently, not enough.

Hubbard should have heeded his words and found something new to write about.

One other deficiency was not devoting nearly enough space to the rest of the Bulls. There wasn’t much more than a mention for most of them.

We know about Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman and Toni Kukoc. If you want to know about any other players, you’ll love Page 26, because that’s the only place you’ll be able to read about them.

“Six Times as Sweet:” nice to look at with plenty of top-quality photos? Yes. An insightful book full of information that the mainstream doesn’t know? No way.