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There's Always This Year On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James were forged and countless others weren’t. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and...

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The Dan Le Batard Show

The hosts announced that the weekly homework was to read the book "There's Always This Year on Basketball and Ascension" by Hanif AdorRakib, highlighting the author's accolades and mentioning an upcoming quiz.

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Okay, so the homework for this week. It's an actual book we're reading. It's called There's Always This Year on Basketball and Ascension. It's by Hanif Ador-Rakib. He's a poet, a MacArthur genius, a f...

— Episode: Le Batard & Friends Presents: Shut Up &...

Episode: Le Batard & Friends Presents: Shut Up & Dribble (f...

The hosts announced that the weekly homework was to read the book "There's Always This Year on Basketball and Ascension" by Hanif AdorRakib, highlighting the author's accolades and mentioning an upcoming quiz.

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Okay, so the homework for this week. It's an actual book we're reading. It's called There's Always This Year on Basketball and Ascension. It's by Hanif Ador-Rakib. He's a poet, a MacArthur genius, a finalist for the National Book Award, an Ohio native. And he'll join us on the season finale. There will be a quiz. There will be a quiz.

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