Emily S.’s Reviews > There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension > Status Update

The section starting in the “White Men Can’t Jump” chapter hustling and “nostalgia as hustle” was so good and such a balm, in a way, after a week like this one in American politics.

The chapter on heartbreak and seeing your ex in a Target felt so random at the reading I went to, but it was so gratifying to see how it fit into the larger narrative about LeBron’s departure

The audiobook is so rewarding—while Abdurraqib jumps from topic to topic as quickly as one of the ballers he writes about, he ties topics together with an impressively sly and agile thread. I love how he paints such a vivid portrait of local legends; I can’t stop thinking about how many elements of “war culture” were adopted as style signifiers in the 90s and 00s.