There's always this year on basketball and ascension

"While Hanif Abdurraqib is an acclaimed author, a gifted poet, and one of our culture's most insightful music critics, he is most of all, at heart, an Ohioan. Growing up in Columbus in the '90s, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron were for...

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Main Author: Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Random House, [2024]
Edition: First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pregame
  • First quarter: City as its true self
  • A timeout in praise of legendary Ohio aviators
  • Intermission: On fathers, sons, and ghosts, holy or otherwise: He got game (1998)
  • Second quarter: Flawed and mortal gods
  • A timeout in praise of legendary Ohio aviators
  • Intermission: On the darkest heavens: Above the rim (1994)
  • Third quarter: The mercy of exits, the magic of fruitless pleading
  • A timeout in praise of legendary Ohio aviators
  • Intermission: On hustles: White men can't jump (1992)
  • Fourth quarter: City as its false self
  • A timeout in praise of legendary Ohio aviators
  • A brief postgame scouting report in praise of legendary Ohio aviators.