From the #1ย New York Timesย bestselling author ofย The Rap Year Bookย andย Basketball (and Other Things), a clever and inventive examination of some of basketball's most iconic players, moments, games, and more.
Everything in basketball is measured. Everything in basketball is counted, and quantified, and computed. And yet, no matter how expansive the list of various pinpoint-specific statistical categories gets, some basketball things remain uncountable, and unquantifiable.
Some moments are more poetry than calculation; more art than numerical value; more feeling than data processing. And thus: Expensive Basketball.
From the final 196 seconds of Kobe Bryantโs playing career to the Sue Bird backpedal, from the erosive terror of Tim Duncan to the Larry Bird memory carousel,ย Expensive Basketballย is an affirmation of feelings.
Itโs an affirmation of basketball as virtuosity.ย
Itโs an affirmation of how sometimes you watch a person perform on the basketball court and it feels the same way it does when you lie in the grass at night and stare up at the moon for long enough that you start to think about how incredible it is that you really, truly, honestly, actually exist.