There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension A. J. Smith You’ll need it

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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension A. J. Smith You’ll need it#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A powerful (The Guardian) reflection on basketball, life, and homefrom the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book Ive ever read but one of the most moving books Ive ever read, period.Steve James, director of Hoop Dreams Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like