If, one day, I find myself able to write 1/10 as well as Abdurraqib, I think I will be satisfied with my prowess.
He's so good that I, well, I deliberately sought out and listened to a book about basketball which, if you know me, tells you all you need to know.
And it's not that the book is about so much more than basketball - which it is - or that Abdurraqib has a gorgeous sense of rhythm in his prose - which he does. It's that even the basketball sections were beautiful and compelling when he told them.