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3 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I wrote almost weekly about him and it was my secret hope with the team as it is now, that he would return to that form. But it doesn't seem that he will be that way again. Still, what a tremendous season that was. It seemed like he was on a mission to break basketball.
The man was ridiculous
2015-16 Curry is one of the best cases for why we need to talk more about the sense of wonder when it comes to athletes. It's hard to appreciate him otherwise. The rebuttals are always numbers about his effectiveness in the years after. Dumb nerd shit. He was awe-inspiring then.
(This isn't being against numbers, but annoyance at pretending or legitimately thinking that the reason most players are beloved is because of purely how effective they are, and not for the most part, how good they are at capturing your imagination)

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The explicitly paternalist character of these questions suggests that a belief in the “dehumanization” of enslaved people is locked in an inextricable embrace with the very history of racial abjection it ostensibly confronts.  bostonreview.net/forum/walter-j…
I forgot who it was who also said that rather than "humanizing" anyone, the attempts solidify the thinking that the subjects are people whose humanity had to be proven in the first place, and then supposedly defended over and over
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I once interviewed a player who was retiring because his cognitive functions had declined so much that he often couldn't remember where he was, and had terrible mood swings, after experiencing what he said was more than ten concussions through his career. Most of them unrecorded.
The silly outlet kept trying to position the story as him saying his goodbyes and thanking the various teams he played for, and I couldn't do it without centering the fact that the man's brain had been ruined without anyone taking the problem seriously.
First concussion was when he was in his teens. Got elbowed during a header in training. Trainer made him count backwards and sent him back out. As he was driving home, he pulled over, called the coach and asked how he got on the road. Had no recollection.
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@BestBuy you think my life is a joke?
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