02557cam a2200337 i 4500 1148283531 TxAuBib 20240403120000.0 230627s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023025673 9780593448793 HRD 32.00 0593448790 HRD 32.00 TxAuBib rda Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983-, author. There's always this year [BOOK] : on basketball and ascension / Hanif Abdurraqib. There is always this year. First edition. New York : Random House, [2024] x, 334 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. 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. "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 forged, and countless others weren't. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tensions between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role-models, all of which he expertly weaves together with memoir: 'Here is where I would like to tell you about the form on my father's jumpshot,' Abdurraqib writes. 'The truth, though, is that I saw my father shoot a basketball only one time.'". 20240403. Abdurraqib, Hanif 1983- Basketball Ohio History. Basketball fans Ohio. Ohio History.