While Hanif Abdurraqib is an acclaimed aut hor\, a gifted poet\, and one of our culture's most insightful music criti cs\, he is most of all\, at heart\, an Ohioan. Growing up in Columbus in t he '90s\, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball\, one in which l egends like LeBron were forged\, and countless others weren't. His lifelon g love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical\, historical\, and emot ionally rich exploration of what it means to make it\, who we think deserv es success\, the tensions between excellence and expectation\, and the ver y notion of role-models\, all of which he expertly weaves together with me moir: "Here is where I would like to tell you about the form on my father' s jump shot\," Abdurraqib writes. "The truth\, though\, is that I saw my f ather shoot a basketball only one time.
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