Growing up in the Greenbrier Houses of East Columbus, Ohio, a part of the city that the cops once dubbed “Uzi Alley,” Hanif Abdurraqib knew how to work an angle. “I came up around hustlers,” he writes in his latest book, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension. “I know what it takes to keep the lights on.” And yet, he doesn’t consider himself to be particularly adept at the art of deception: “I am not the best hustler.”
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