Hanif Abdurraqib On LeBron James In High School, Why NBA Nicknames Are Bad, How He Loves Awful Teams

No Dunks

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Basketball, Sports, Comedy

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Hanif Abdurraqib joins No Dunks to discuss if he’s heard from LeBron James since releasing ‘There’s Always This Year’, attending a LeBron high school game, that there are no good NBA nicknames anymore, how he became a Minnesota Timberwolves fan, his thoughts on Anthony Edwards and Rudy Gobert, why he loves bad NBA teams, a memorable moment at a Toronto Raptors game, and what to make of Scoot Henderson. 📕Pick up There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension: https://amzn.to/3XPXGQh 📈 Subscribe to No Dunks on YouTube: YouTube.com/nodunksinc 🏝️ No Buffs x Survivor 47 Ep. 1 recap: https://bit.ly/47F9AQj 👕 Fix up, look sharp in No Dunks merch: https://breakingt.com/collections/no-dunks

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0:00.0	He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then...
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0:34.9	Welcome to No Dunks here on the Athletic Podcast Network, and we are a few lucky guys today.
0:46.5	I don't know how it happened.
0:47.4	It took some persistence, but we have got an incredible guest coming up first.
0:51.4	Let me intro back.
0:52.2	The few lucky guys we got here.
0:53.3	The man in the middle, it's Trey Kirby. Hey,o. Hey-yo! And the man always making the magic happen. It's super producer J.D. Hello. And now I got introduced myself. I'm Tass Mellis. But now, the more important part, Hanif Abdurakib is with us. He is an author. He's a poet. He has a lot of things. He's an essayist. He is a true basketball enthusiast. And he's busy celebrating. There's always this year an incredible book. So we have to thank him for taking the time to join us. Hanif. Just want to thank you straight up. First and foremost for coming on. No, thank you. Of the many things I am, I'm also a fan of the pod. Like, for real, in the YouTube commenting that level fan of the pod. So thank you all for having me. Oh, man. I appreciate it. This book is incredible. It's about basketball, but it is about way more than basketball.
1:44.6	It gets extremely personal.
1:47.1	You use the word pompadour at one point.
1:49.6	What a word.
1:51.1	That is an incredible word.
1:53.2	We'll start with the basketball part before we get to the personal part of it,
1:57.7	because it starts with you growing up in Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, the same time as
2:02.4	LeBron grew up, as are almost the same age. And you talk about going to Akron and watching a
2:09.0	couple of those games, having to partake in what was going on in the LeBron fandom. But I just
2:14.1	want to know from there, you became a diehard Minnesota Timberwolves fan instead.
2:20.3	How? How? How did that happen?
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