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Missionaries by Phil Klay

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- James Clark, senior reporter

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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett Graff

If you haven’t gotten this must-read account of the September 11th attacks, you need to put The Only Plane In the Sky at the top of your Christmas list. Graff expertly explains the timeline of that day through the re-telling of those who lived it, including the loved ones of those who were lost, the persistently brave first responders who were on the ground in New York, and the service members working in the Pentagon. My only suggestion is to not read it in public — if you’re anything like me, you’ll be consistently left in tears. [Buy]

- Haley Britzky, Army reporter

The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry

Why do we even fight wars? Wouldn’t a massive tennis tournament be a nicer way for nations to settle their differences? This is one of the many questions Harvard professor Elaine Scarry attempts to answer, along with why nuclear war is akin to torture, why the language surrounding war is sterilized in public discourse, and why both war and torture unmake human worlds by destroying access to language. It’s a big lift of a read, but even if you just read chapter two (like I did), you’ll come away thinking about war in new and refreshing ways. [Buy]

- David Roza, Air Force reporter

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor

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- Jeff Schogol, Pentagon correspondent

America's War for the Greater Middle East by Andrew J. Bacevich

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- Paul Szoldra, editor-in-chief

Burn In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution by P.W. Singer and August Cole

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SAS: Rogue Heroes by Ben MacIntyre

Like WWII? Like a band of eccentric daredevils wreaking havoc on fascists? Then you'll love SAS: Rogue Heroes, which re-tells some truly insane heists performed by one of the first modern special forces units. Best of all, Ben MacIntyre grounds his history in a compassionate, balanced tone that displays both the best and worst of the SAS men, who are, like anyone else, only human after all. [Buy]

- David Roza, Air Force reporter

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

The Alice Network is a gripping novel which follows two courageous women through different time periods — one living in the aftermath of World War II, determined to find out what has happened to someone she loves, and the other working in a secret network of spies behind enemy lines during World War I. This gripping historical fiction is based on the true story of a network that infiltrated German lines in France during The Great War and weaves a tale so packed full of drama, suspense, and tragedy that you won’t be able to put it down. [Buy]

Katherine Rondina, Anchor Books

“Because I published a new book this year, I've been answering questions about my inspirations. This means I've been thinking about and so thankful for The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender. I can't credit it with making me want to be a writer — that desire was already there — but it inspired me to write stories where the fantastical complicates the ordinary, and the impossible becomes possible. A girl in a nice dress with no one to appreciate it. An unremarkable boy with a remarkable knack for finding things. The stories in this book taught me that the everydayness of my world could become magical and strange, and in that strangeness I could find a new kind of truth.”

Diane Cook is the author of the novel The New Wilderness, which was long-listed for the 2020 Booker Prize, and the story collection Man V. Nature, which was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award, the Believer Book Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the Los Angeles Times Award for First Fiction. Read an excerpt from The New Wilderness.

Bill Johnston, University of California Press

“I’ve revisited a lot of old favorites in this grim year of fear and isolation, and have been most thankful of all for The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara. Witty, reflexive, intimate, queer, disarmingly occasional and monumentally serious all at once, they’ve been a constant balm and inspiration. ‘The only thing to do is simply continue,’ he wrote, in 'Adieu to Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul'; ‘is that simple/yes, it is simple because it is the only thing to do/can you do it/yes, you can because it is the only thing to do.’”

Helen Macdonald is a nature essayist with a semiregular column in the New York Times Magazine. Her latest novel, Vesper Flights, is a collection of her best-loved essays, and her debut book, H Is for Hawk, won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction and the Costa Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction.

Andrea Scher, Scholastic Press

“This year, I’m so grateful for You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson. Reading — like everything else — has been a struggle for me in 2020. It’s been tough to let go of all of my anxieties about the state of the world and our country and get swept away by a story. But You Should See Me in a Crown pulled me in right away; for the blissful time that I was reading it, it made me think about a world outside of 2020 and it made me smile from ear to ear. Joy has been hard to come by this year, and I’m so thankful for this book for the joy it brought me.”

Jasmine Guillory is the New York Times bestselling author of five romance novels, including this year’s Party of Two. Her work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, and Time.

Nelson Fitch, Random House

“Last year, stuck in a prolonged reading rut that left me wondering if I even liked books anymore, I stumbled across Tenth of December by George Saunders, a collection of stories Saunders wrote between 1995 and 2012 that are at turns funny, moving, startling, weird, profound, and often all of those things at the same time. As a writer, what I crave most from books is to find one so excellent it makes me feel like I'd be better off quitting — and so wonderful that it reminds me what it is to be purely a reader again, encountering new worlds and revelations every time I turn a page. Tenth of December is that, and I'm so grateful that it fell off a high shelf and into my life.”

Veronica Roth is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent series and the Carve the Mark duology. Her latest novel, Chosen Ones, is her first novel for adults. Read an excerpt from Chosen Ones.

Ian Byers-Gamber, Blazevox Books

“Waking up today to the prospect of some hours spent reading away part of another day of this disastrous, delirious pandemic year, I’m most grateful for the book in my hands, one itself full of gratitude for a life spent reading: Gloria Frym’s How Proust Ruined My Life. Frym’s essays — on Marcel Proust, yes, and Walt Whitman, and Lucia Berlin, but also peppermint-stick candy and Allen Ginsburg’s knees, among other Proustian memory-prompts — restore me to my sense of my eerie luck at a life spent rushing to the next book, the next page, the next word.”

Jonathan Lethem is the author of a number of critically acclaimed novels, including The Fortress of Solitude and the National Book Critics Circle Award winner Motherless Brooklyn. His latest novel, The Arrest, is a postapocalyptic tale about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered super car.

David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Riverhead

“I’m incredibly grateful for the magnificent The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer. This book — a mélange of history, memoir, and reportage — is the reconceptualization of Native life that’s been urgently needed since the last great indigenous history, Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. It’s at once a counternarrative and a replacement for Brown’s book, and it rejects the standard tale of Native victimization, conquest, and defeat. Even though I teach Native American studies to college students, I found new insights and revelations in almost every chapter. Not only a great read, the book is a tremendous contribution to Native American — and American — intellectual and cultural history.”

David Heska Wanbli Weiden, an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota Nation, is author of the novel Winter Counts, which is BuzzFeed Book Club’s November pick. He is also the author of the children’s book Spotted Tail, which won the 2020 Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. Read an excerpt from Winter Counts.

Valerie Mosley, Tordotcom

“In 2020, I've been lucky to finish a single book within 30 days, but I burned through this 507-page brick in the span of a weekend. Harrow the Ninth reminded me that even when absolutely everything is terrible, it's still possible to feel deep, gratifying, brain-buzzing admiration for brilliant art. Thank you, Harrow, for being one of the brightest spots in a dark year and for keeping the home fires burning.”

Casey McQuiston is the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue, and her next book, One Last Stop, comes out in 2021.

"I'm grateful for V.S. Naipaul's troubling masterpiece, A Bend in the River — which not only made me see the world anew, but made me see what literature could do. It's a book that's lucid enough to reveal the brutality of the forces shaping our world and its politics; yet soulful enough to penetrate the most recondite secrets of human interiority. A book of great beauty without a moment of mercy. A marriage of opposites that continues to shape my own deeper sense of just how much a writer can actually accomplish."

Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright, and his latest novel, Homeland Elegies, is about an American son and his immigrant father searching for belonging in a post-9/11 country. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Vanessa German, Feminist Press

“I'm most thankful for Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether. It's a YA book set in 1930s Harlem, and it was the first Black-girl-coming-of-age book I ever read, the first time I ever saw myself in a book. I appreciate how it expanded my world and my understanding that books can speak to you right where you are and take you on a journey, at the same time.”

Deesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. She is also the co-author of Co-Parenting 101: Helping Your Kids Thrive in Two Households After Divorce, written in collaboration with her ex-husband. Philyaw’s writing on race, parenting, gender, and culture has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, McSweeney’s, the Rumpus, and elsewhere. Read a story from The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.

Philippa Gedge, W. W. Norton & Company

“As both a writer and a reader I am hugely grateful for Patricia Highsmith’s plotting and writing suspense fiction. As a writer I’m thankful for Highsmith’s generosity with her wisdom and experience: She talks us through how to tease out the narrative strands and develop character, how to know when things are going awry, even how to decide to give things up as a bad job. She’s unabashed about sharing her own ‘failures,’ and in my experience, there’s nothing more encouraging for a writer than learning that our literary gods are mortal! As a reader, it provides a fascinating insight into the genesis of one of my favorite novels of all time — The Talented Mr. Ripley, as well as the rest of her brilliant oeuvre. And because it’s Highsmith, it’s so much more than just a how-to guide: It’s hugely engaging and, while accessible, also provides a glimpse into the mind of a genius. I’ve read it twice — while working on each of my thrillers, The Hunting Party and The Guest List — and I know I’ll be returning to the well-thumbed copy on my shelf again soon!”

Lucy Foley is the New York Times bestselling author of the thrillers The Guest List and The Hunting Party. She has also written two historical fiction novels and previously worked in the publishing industry as a fiction editor.

“The books I'm most thankful for this year are a three-book series titled Tales from the Gas Station by Jack Townsend. Walking a fine line between comedy and horror (which is much harder than people think), the books follow Jack, an employee at a gas station in a nameless town where all manner of horrifyingly fantastical things happen. And while the monsters are scary and more than a little ridiculous, it's Jack's bone-dry narration, along with his best friend/emotional support human, Jerry, that elevates the books into something that are as lovely as they are absurd.”

T.J. Klune is a Lambda Literary Award–winning author and an ex-claims examiner for an insurance company. His novels include The House in the Cerulean Sea and The Extraordinaries.

Sylvernus Darku (Team Black Image Studio), Ayebia Clarke Publishing

"Nervous Conditions is a book that I have read several times over the years, including this year. The novel covers the themes of gender and race and has at its heart Tambu, a young girl in 1960s Rhodesia determined to get an education and to create a better life for herself. Dangarembga’s prose is evocative and witty, and the story is thought-provoking. I’ve been inspired anew by Tambu each time I’ve read this book."

Peace Adzo Medie is Senior Lecturer in Gender and International Politics at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence against Women in Africa (Oxford University Press, 2020). His Only Wife is her debut novel.

Jenna Maurice, HarperCollins

“The book I'm most thankful for? Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. My mother and father would read me poems from it before bed — I'm convinced it infused me not only with a sense of poetic cadence, but also a wry sense of humor.”

Victoria “V.E.” Schwab is the bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including Vicious, the Shades of Magic series, and This Savage Song. Her latest novel, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, is BuzzFeed Book Club’s December pick. Read an excerpt from The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.

Meg Vázquez, Square Fish

“My childhood best friend gave me Troubling a Star by Madeleine L'Engle for Hanukkah when I was 11 years old, and it's still my favorite book of all time. I love the way it defies genre (it's a political thriller/YA romance that includes a lot of scientific research and also poetry??), and the way it values smartness, gutsiness, vulnerability, kindness, and a sense of adventure. The book follows 16-year-old Vicky Austin's life-altering trip to Antarctica; her trip changed my life, too. In a year when safe travel is almost impossible, I'm so grateful to be able to return to her story again and again.”

Kate Stayman-London's debut novel, One to Watch, is about a plus-size blogger who’s been asked to star on a Bachelorette-like reality show. Stayman-London served as lead digital writer for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and has written for notable figures, from former president Obama and Malala Yousafzai to Anna Wintour and Cher.

Katharine McGee is grateful for the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. Chris Bailey Photography, Firebird

“I’m thankful for the Redwall books by Brian Jacques. I discovered the series in elementary school, and it sparked a love of big, epic stories that has never left me. (If you read my books, you know I can’t resist a broad cast of characters!) I used to read the books aloud to my younger sister, using funny voices for all the narrators. Now that I have a little boy of my own, I can’t wait to someday share Redwall with him.”

Katharine McGee is the New York Times bestselling author of American Royals and its sequel, Majesty. She is also the author of the Thousandth Floor trilogy.

Beth Gwinn, Time-Life Books

"I am thankful most for books that carry me out of the world and back again, and while I find it painful to choose among them, here's one early and one late: Zen Cho's Black Water Sister, which comes out in 2021 but I devoured just two days ago, and the long out-of-print Wizards and Witches volume of the Time-Life Enchanted World series, which is where I first read about the legend of the Scholomance."

Naomi Novik is the New York Times bestselling author of the Nebula Award–winning novel Uprooted, Spinning Silver, and the nine-volume Temeraire series. Her latest novel, A Deadly Education, is the first of the Scholomance trilogy.

Christina Lauren are grateful for the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. Christina Lauren, Little, Brown and Company

"We are thankful for the Twilight series for about a million reasons, not the least of which it's what brought the two of us together. Writing fanfic in a space where we could be silly and messy together taught us that we don't have to be perfect, but there's no harm in trying to get better with every attempt. It also cemented for us that the best relationships are the ones in which you can be your real, authentic self, even when you're struggling to do things you never thought you'd be brave enough to attempt. Twilight brought millions of readers back into the fold and inspired hundreds of romance authors. We really do thank Stephenie Meyer every day for the gift of Twilight and the fandom it created."

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Latest in the N.B.A. Injury Crisis: Kemba Walker on a Stretcher

Injuries happen in all professional sports. Players get hurt, even when they are in top physical shape.

But what has happened in the N.B.A. this season has gone far beyond the norm, particularly for the league’s best. Four top-20 players have not seen the court much, if at all, this year. That’s not including the All-Stars who only recently made their debuts, such as Detroit’s Blake Griffin and the Clippers’ Paul George, or other stars who are dealing with day-to-day injuries, like the Nets’ Kyrie Irving and Portland’s Damian Lillard.

On Friday night, Boston’s Kemba Walker was taken off the floor on a stretcher. He ran into one of his own teammates, Semi Ojeleye, and immediately collapsed. Walker received a diagnosis of “concussion-like symptoms,” according to the Celtics, and was taken to a hospital for further evaluation.

And it’s not just injuries to franchise players. Rising young players — likely future All-Stars — are hurt too, such as Sacramento’s Marvin Bagley III and De’Aaron Fox. And, of course, Zion Williamson, the most hyped young player the N.B.A. has seen (or I should say hasn’t seen) since LeBron James, is out till at least next month.

This is unusual, and the injuries are happening as the discussion rages about so-called load management — teams’ sitting players to keep them fresh for the playoffs. The injuries have, it seems, come at the expense of the N.B.A.’s television ratings, and while many injuries are fluky, you have to wonder if teams are going to start resting players for even more games as a precaution.

You could make a new “We Didn’t Start the Fire” with all the names on injury lists. But we’re going to home in on some of the most significant ones.

All figures represent statistics entering Friday’s games.

The Injured Elite

Golden State’s Stephen Curry is out for several months because of a hand injury, which means he can cheer on the Warriors from the bench, alongside his teammate Klay Thompson, who is out indefinitely with a knee injury. If you have any doubt about Curry’s impact, the Warriors went from a significant playoff threat to the worst team in the N.B.A.

Part of that drop-off comes from losing Kevin Durant, who is now with the Nets — though “with” is perhaps the wrong word. Durant was essentially ruled out for this whole season in the summer because he tore an Achilles’ tendon during the league finals in June. He still signed with the Nets in July.

And then there’s Victor Oladipo, who hurt his knee last January and hasn’t returned to the Indiana Pacers.

The Sacramento Kids Are All Right

The strange thing about the Kings losing Bagley and Fox is that they have done just fine. Bagley has played only one game this season. Fox last played on Nov. 8 against the Atlanta Hawks. Since that game, the Kings have gone 3-1, after starting the season 3-6. The three most recent victories include quality wins against Portland, Boston and Phoenix. The lone loss was by 2 points to the Los Angeles Lakers at the Staples Center, a difficult game for any team to win even at full strength.

Under their new coach, Luke Walton, the Kings finally seem to be rounding into form on the backs of Harrison Barnes, Bogdan Bogdanovic and Buddy Hield. And Bogdanovic comes off the bench! But the energetic Richaun Holmes — a candidate for the All-Chip On The Shoulder Team — has been just as crucial on both ends of the floor, and is on pace for a career year.

Bagley is expected to return soon, while Fox’s return is uncertain. If the Kings can tread water for a while longer, they’ll make the playoffs and be the kind of team no one wants to face.

Gordon ‘Sisyphus’ Hayward

Last season was a struggle for Gordon Hayward. His return from the prior season’s horrific leg injury did not go as planned. He had trouble getting to the basket, so much of his offense was derived from jump shooting. He didn’t fit next to Irving, and really, neither did the rest of the Boston Celtics.

This season’s Hayward is the All-Star the Celtics signed. In eight games, Hayward averaged 18.9 points, 7.1 rebounds and 4.1 assists. A larger percentage of his shots were coming off drives to the basket. He was finishing 71.1 percent of his shots in the restricted area, compared with 63.9 percent last season. He had more lift, which may have helped with his jump shooting, too; he was a whopping 43.3 percent from deep.

And then he got hurt. Again. Hayward had an operation this month after breaking his left hand during a game against the San Antonio Spurs, and he is sidelined for at least a month. In the grand scheme, this is not a serious injury, but it is surely a frustrating one given the season he was having.

The Celtics aren’t a particularly deep team, and they need his playmaking because of the threats they face in the East from the Milwaukee Bucks and Philadelphia 76ers. Boston has been able to take advantage of a soft schedule, going 4-2 in Hayward’s absence. But the games get tougher now.

No Sleep Till Brooklyn Recovers

The Nets knew Durant was injured when they signed him. He is, after all, an investment in the future. But now Irving and another one of their blue-chip prospects, Caris LeVert, are hurt, as well. This means the team’s three best players are out. Even in a throwaway season, this is a disappointing way to start.

LeVert hurt his thumb this month and had surgery, which is, of course, less distressing than the frightening leg injury that caused him to miss three months last season. He has played 57, 71 and 40 games in his first three N.B.A. seasons. This year, assuming he gets back in a month, he will have missed about 20 games. But he was having an excellent season, on pace for his best. In nine games, LeVert averaged 16.8 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists. It’s a small sample size, but LeVert’s jump shot is a particular point of improvement. He shot 36.1 percent on 3s in those nine games, compared with 31.2 percent last year.

Irving has a shoulder injury that appears to be day to day. That is not, in itself, a big deal. But like LeVert, Irving has a significant injury history. After starting the season as one of the most dominant players in the league, Irving began slumping before sitting out three straight games, with perhaps more on the way. The Nets have cobbled together two wins without him.

Historically, Irving’s numbers take a dip as the N.B.A. season progresses. If the Nets want to make the playoffs this season, doing so without Irving and LeVert at full strength is going to be exceedingly difficult.

High On Zion

The New Orleans Pelicans are 6-9. They are a winning streak or two away from being in the playoff race, but the injury bug has feasted on them too. Lonzo Ball played in Thursday night’s win, returning from a groin strain that had kept him out since Nov. 8. Brandon Ingram, who is putting up All-Star numbers this season, missed four games with an ankle injury.

There is still about a month or so before Williamson makes his debut, but his addition, assuming that he is healthy, will shake up the race for the playoffs, especially with Ingram back. The bottom half of the Western Conference is very fluid right now. Phoenix is sinking after a hot start, and its starting point guard, Ricky Rubio, is dealing with a back injury.

Williamson will serve, essentially, as one of the most remarkable midseason N.B.A. acquisitions in recent years, and he may elevate the Pelicans to another level.

Hoping in Portland

Portland has its own reinforcement waiting in the wings. The 5-11 Trail Blazers are hoping to get Jusuf Nurkic, one of their best players, back later this season after he fractured his leg in March and missed out on the Blazers’ unexpected run to the Western Conference finals. On Wednesday, Nurkic posted on Twitter that he would not return in 2019.

The return of Nurkic, a talented center, would alleviate some of the pressure on Lillard and C.J. McCollum. To make matters worse, Lillard is currently out with back spasms and has no clear timetable for returning.

For now, the Blazers are relying on the recently signed Carmelo Anthony to pick up the slack. They can still make the playoffs, but 5-11 can turn into 6-18 in a blink, and then the postseason will be out of reach.

Given how this season has gone for the health of N.B.A. players, please, everyone in the league: Get your flu shot. Your teams need you.

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The Ten Greatest Kanye West Songs Of All Time

Today is Kanye West’s 40th birthday and rather than get Kanye a cake or a pair of extremely expensive sneakers, we here at Boss Hunting decided to celebrate Kanye in the only way we know how, by assessing the greatness of his music.

Don’t expect any mention of that weird Nike diss track or whatever “I am a God” was. No we’re gonna be focusing on the greatness of Kanye. Of course this is only one list and we can’t possibly do every great track justice, but here’s what we ended up with.

Honourable Mentions: Famous, Waves, Lost in the World, Stronger, FourFive Seconds, N***as in Paris, Heartless, I Love Kanye.

Lost in the World, FourFive Seconds and N***as in Paris all get disqualified from the list on the basis that they can’t be entirely classified as ‘Kanye’ songs. Although his collab with Jay-Z is still very much in his style, all of the songs in the top ten come from places that are very recognisably Kanye. Famous gets a mention not only for being a good track, but also for the impact it made on the pop-culture world.

Waves is also an underrated banger, although some of us would’ve liked the final version to sound like how it was initially pitched by Chance the Rapper. Heartless and Stronger also get a mention due to it’s noritory amongst more casual fans of Kanye. I Love Kanye is the best skit on any of his albums and is on here for one reason. It’s funny. It’s quirky. It’s so Kanye.

This section alone could warrant it’s own tribute, with Kanye producing great songs far beyond a ten count. However, here is a carefully considered and likely highly controversial list of the top 10 Kanye West tracks of all time.

10 – Gold Digger → Late Registration (2005)

Possibly Kanye’s most widely popular song, ‘Gold Digger’ became a permanent fixture in clubs around the world due to its eccentric vibe and fun flavour. One should be careful however to fully discount the quality of the track. Even the first thirty seconds are packed with sounds that defined an era in music.

Jamie Foxx’s voice in this track is iconic, leading to a hard breakdown and the introduction of one of the most famous hooks in all of hip-hop. “I ain’t sayin she a gold digger/ but she ain’t mess’n with no broke n****s” is one of the most recognisable hooks in the modern era of hip hop.

The beat stays consistently upbeat, forcing even the most fridget of listeners to at least tap a foot or bob a head. The song reaches out of the bounds of just the rap game and has the widespread pop appeal that few rap songs were able to have before that time.

While Kanye brings the lyrical heat, there are songs that are significantly more intriguing in manner senses. While this song has gained international popularity and acclaim due to it’s accessible greatness, it fails in some respects to do justice to the type of work Kanye is capable of. For this reason, a ranking in the top ten is more than enough to recognise Kanye’s most famous track.

9 – Love Lockdown → 808s and Heartbreaks (2008)

Ah so we come to the heartbreaking love ballad. A story about the conflict between fame and love. The lyrics of this song are less of a concern here, as nothing blows you away in this regard. No immaculate or majestic stage is set by anything that the vocals say. What makes this song so great is that it relies entirely on the way that the instrumentals work so beautifully together to provoke such deep feelings on the listener’s part.

Rather it’s the slow burn and build that transpires throughout the song. The deep bass drums that belt out from the beginning are so deep it feels like someone is drumming your soul. You can just focus on those drums tapping in your chest. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. It’s the consistent beat that dominates the song and helps define it. Slowly Kanye adds layers of instruments on top, slowly, until one is totally submerged in the very simple message of Kanye’s heartbreak.

Then the outro. No spoken word just a deep forest sounds that build the song to it’s final climax before being striped away to that all too familiar beat from the intro.

8 – Jesus Walks → College Dropout (2004)

Young Kanye lays down some bars in this one. The whole song relies almost entirely on two pillars.

The first, the context to religion and christianity. This shows in the overall tone of the track, with the back up vocals all having a distinct church group style. This juxtaposed with the preaching manner in which Kanye is actually rapping creates a sense that you’re engulfed in a sermon on the Mount of Yeezus.

The second is Kanye coming at everybody trying to make a name for himself.

“You know what the Midwest is? Young and restless

Where restless (niggas) might snatch your necklace

And next these (niggas) might jack your Lexus

Somebody tell these (niggas) who Kanye West is.”

It’s worth noting this is off Kanye’s first album. He’s basically introducing himself to the audience that tells them one very clear message. My name is Kanye, I’m from the city of Chicago and I’m a badass.

7 – Black Skinhead→ Yeezus (2013)

Gritty Kanye is a good Kanye.

This is Kanye’s best gritty song. When the career retrospective is written on Kanye West it’ll say many a thing. It’ll recount a polarising relationship with she who shall not be named, a beef with Taylor Swift and most prominently of all it will mention that Kanye pioneered a style that was adopted by rappers like Chance.

However this is the black box for Kanye’s influence on a harder and more experimental form of rap music.

As he mentions in the song about going 500mph and being out of control. It’s a direct fuck you to everyone on the outside. The public, the media, the scrutiny, all of it.

It’s the Kardashian era Kanye mission statement. I’m going to do whatever I want to do, make whatever music I want and do it whenever I want to do it.

6 – Hey Mama → Late Registration (2005)

This is some great early Kanye. Just simple story telling over a cool beat with some fun lyricism. It’s the kind of song you play when you’re just hanging out with your friends on a lazy Sunday afternoon enjoying the sunshine.

There’s not a lot to hate about this song. It’s an upbeat tribute from a wildly successful son to the mother that helped him on his road to stardom. Even hook is loveable.

“(Hey Mama), I wanna scream so loud for you, cause I’m so proud of you

Let me tell you what I’m about to do, (Hey Mama)

I know I act a fool but, I promise you I’m goin back to school

I appreciate what you allowed for me

I just want you to be proud of me (Hey Mama)”

Deep down inside we all wish we could just straight up shout out our awesome mothers in song and actually pull it off. So for being a fun, well constructed and never boring display by a loud and proud mama’s boy, Hey Mama pulls a sweet sixth spot.

5 – Blood On Leaves → Yeezus (2013)

Blood on Leaves is dark, hard and gritty.

The sample of Nina Simone’s ‘Strange Fruit’ over piano keys to intro the song immediately catches attention before Kanye is even able to spit a line. The repetition of the phrase “blood on leaves” is a staple of the track, and if one wants to truly appreciate the depth of this song, they should check out the original song itself.

This is one of Kanye’s more undeniably provocative tracks. From referencing lynchings in the south during the late 1800s to calling out Instagram frauds, Kanye covers a very broad range of sensitive social issues whilst remaining aggressive throughout. The use of the song ‘Strange Fruit’ as a sample holds a lot of weight in this sense politically. It’s not trying to be a party banger, nor is it a song built for the radio. It’s a track that’s meant to make you think about the world. Usually when artists (and Kanye is guilty of this too) try and do this kind of commentary, they can miss the point entirely, seeming to lecture more than provoke.

This is not the case with Blood on Leaves.

4 – Dark Fantasy → My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)

Doing this list, however you cut it, teaches you something. Kanye has made some really fucking great music in his career.

With that explicitly stated, we have Dark Fantasy. The fact is that this ranking might not do this song justice. It has all the great aspects of an all-time great Kanye track.

The intro feels like a kids story turned dark right at the end. The hook is amazingly done, providing insight into the way Ye sees himself. The top, better yet, the very top. He’s actually asking if it actually gets any higher than where he is. All performed with beautiful vocals that seem more heavenly than arrogant.

Then Kanye spits bars on bars on bars on top of a very old school rap beat. Just Kanye performing some verbal acrobatics in a way that resonates with hip-hop fans of any era. It’s this kind of performing that puts him all-time lists with other great pure rappers like Nas.

The fact is that this track would be number one a lot of lists if it were made by another artist. But alas, Kanye’s discography is a lot like the 2017 Golden State Warriors. Three can only be three in a Big Three. Sorry Klay Thompson, and sorry Dark Fantasy.

3 – Touch the Sky → Late Registration (2005)

Along with the aforementioned Gold Digger and Jesus Walks, this song is among Kanye’s most famous. Like the others, it grabs your attention from the start, giving you only four small beats to prepare for a vibrant experience blossoming with energy and optimism.

The reason this song gets a higher place on this list is the incredible interaction between the orchestra, Kanye’s choice of tone and even a strong Lupe Fiasco feature. Kanye also puts forth one of his stronger performances from a verbal gymnastics perspectives. Some Kanye songs you can kind of keep up with lyrically. Other than the chorus, anything Kanye vocalises on this track is pretty tough to follow for longer than a few seconds.

For being a nice blend between mainstream hit, pure rap skill and that dash of Kanye flavour, Touch The Sky opens up the top three.

2 – Runaway → My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)

Runaway will certainly be one of Kanye’s greatest career accomplishments. The opening piano keys are hauntingly beautiful, consuming the listener with confusing but real emotions from the very beginning. It’s the anticipation that get’s you, like in a horror film when you’re waiting for the jump scare. Then the different note rings in you ear and you feel it. That’s just the first twenty seconds of a nine minute emotional odyssey.

The song sends chills down your spine from the start and is best consumed in a dark room with your eyes closed. It’s what Kanye West does better than many artists in history. Then the song actually starts and it has an effect, a personal one at that.

Kanye is unravelling himself in song. He acknowledges his arrogance, the fact that he is not perfect whilst also admitting himself to be a perfectionist. It’s a raw self reflection where it seems that Ye struggles both with a pursuit of perfection in his life but also knows ultimately that nothing can remain totally without flaw forever.

It’s Kanye’s perception on the fleeting nature of beauty and love. It feels so intimate all the way through, the kind of connection the song makes is the kind you only experience sparingly in life.

Then there’s the outro. An over three minute voyage. Just auto tuned and indecipherable vocals over the haunting but classically beautiful instrumentals. Much in the way one can become entranced with the mystery of a Frank Ocean track, the outro provides and incredible conclusion to a perfect song.

1 – Ultralight Beam → The Life of Pablo (2016)

There are some great tracks that have been discussed in this piece and even more that didn’t even get a honorable mention. Some club bangers. Some heartfelt ballads. Some joyous proclamations of the joy of life. Some angry protests. With the close study of every track and skit on every album Ye has ever released, there is an undeniable truth.

Ultralight Beam is the greatest track Kanye West has ever made.

I understand the opposing argument. The Life of Pablo as an album has many flaws. The Kanye you get in TLOP overall is not the best Kanye we have ever been fortunate to experience. No song on that album had the mainstream acclaim of other songs. Nor did it universally get approved by every diehard hip-hop fan. TLOP is an average Kanye West album, mainly because it has too many songs that feel like filler. Whilst I don’t agree with all these assertions, I do understand them.

But none of those arguments have anything to do with Ultralight Beam.

It feels heavenly, divine, omnipotent and enlightening. I still remember driving around with my sister when I first heard it. My heart melted with the transition from the girl talking about God to those incredible chords and vocals. The instrumentals are insane, undeniably some of Kanye’s best producing work.

Then the choir hits. The choir is beautiful. The choir is exactly what it says it is. A god dream.

A deep beat, soul melting chords and an inspiring choir all collide to touch a very sensitive part of your very being you never knew. Kelly Price’s voice is the definition of musical beauty. All of this all time great Kanye work builds to what clinches the title for best Kanye track. The best verse of 2016 performed by Chance the Rapper. There’s too much about this verse that is great to limit it to one part. The song built perfectly to that voice, with those words over that beat.

If you’re still not totally convinced, listen to the last twenty seconds of that song a few times. Listen to it from beginning to end by yourself and really listen. That build over a song to the incredibly beautiful ending is what Kanye has thrived on his whole career. This is his greatest example of it.

It’s okay to disagree. The denial is expected. I sought out another answer. A great spiritual journey was undertaken. Many a possibility pondered. But in the end, there can only be one.

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Your Wednesday Morning Roundup

If you’re on the Flyers and you’re name isn’t Claude Giroux, Sean Couturier, Jake Voracek, Shayne Gostisbehere, or Ivan Provorov, chances are you can’t score.

It happened again Tuesday night against the Vancouver Canucks in a 5-2 loss. Provorov and Voracek scored the two goals. Michal Neuvirth stopped 18 of 22 shots in 34:26 of work. He got pulled after the fourth goal midway through the second period. He looked awful last night, along with the rest of the team.

What’s it going to take for the Flyers to get their mojo back?

The moves may have begun on defense. There’s a chance Mark Alt gets replaced by Sam Morin on the defense. He was seen carrying his sticks and bag when leaving the arena last night. On offense, Matt Read has cleared waivers, but he has not been sent down to Lehigh Valley just yet.

Flyers are back in action tonight in Brooklyn against the Islanders. Puck drop is set for 7 pm on NBC Sports Philadelphia +.

Before we begin with the roundup, make sure you get your tickets for our Ugly Christmas Sweater party happening next Saturday.

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Former Eagles Brian Dawkins and Terrell Owens are Pro Football Hall of Fame semifinalists:

.@BrianDawkins and @terrellowens have been named @ProFootballHOF semifinalists for the Class of 2018.#FlyEaglesFly http://pic.twitter.com/iMCDwBG1Xk

— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) November 22, 2017

The Eagles return to practice today, and Alshon Jeffery is enjoying his year in Philadelphia:

Jeffery is letting his personality show, too. He has been an active member of the Eagles’ touchdown celebrations, and he was animated during the second half of the Cowboys game. (The gist of the explicit message was that teams shouldn’t mess with the Eagles, and that they were the best.)

At least publicly, Jeffery is playing down the Bears game. He enjoyed his time there, but he said he’s in Philadelphia, the Eagles are winning, and it’s just the next game. Reich said when a player plays against a former team, there’s always emotion to guard against it. Reich experienced it as a player. The Bears haven’t allowed a 100-yard receiver since Week 3, so Jeffery will be challenged against a defensive system he knows well. But looking at the Bears offense, they could use a player like Jeffery — no receiver has more than 330 yards there.

At the conclusion of the Bears’ three-win 2016 season, Jeffery told reporters, “I guarantee you we’re going to win the Super Bowl next year.” Asked about the comment on Tuesday, Jeffery interjected with a smile.

“I never said a team, though,” Jeffery said.

The defensive line isn’t the only line playing with some emotion.

Special teams guru Chris Maragos enjoyed Kamu Grugier-Hill’s kicking on Sunday.

The Eagles and Sportsradio 94WIP agreed to a new seven-year extension to broadcast Eagles games on the station.

Finally, Eagle hater Nick Wright is back at it. He went to Syracuse (where I go now), and by god does he look like a Syracuse journalism graduate. He definitely was one of those really annoying kids when he was on campus.

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The Sixers take on the Portland Trail Blazers tonight at 7 pm on NBC Sports Philadelphia. Point guard Damian Lillard thinks the Sixers should be respected across the league:

“I think in the past we took them lightly. They kind of jumped out and played hard and they beat us,” Lillard said following a Tuesday-evening practice at the Sixers training complex in Camden. “This year, you have no choice but to respect what they’ve done and how they’re playing. They’re not doing it like it’s luck, they’re out there hooping.”

Lillard sprained his right ankle in the second quarter Monday night against the Grizzlies. He returned in the second half and helped the Trail Blazers earn a 100-92 victory on the first of a five-game road trip.

The second game of that trip takes place on Wednesday at the Wells Fargo Center against the Sixers.

Joel Embiid isn’t worried about his trash talk motivating opponents.

Let’s recap Monday night’s fun win over the Utah Jazz.

Ben Simmons has an important question to ask:

Should @sixers bring back the old school black jerseys???

— Ben Simmons (@BenSimmons25) November 22, 2017

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Some details were released in Roy Halladay’s deadly plane crash

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In college basketball, Penn fell to Towson 78-71 in the Gulf Coast Showcase. They take on University of Missouri-Kansas City today.

Also today, No. 5 Villanova takes on Western Kentucky in the Battle 4 Atlantis, and La Salle takes on No. 11 Miami (FL) in Reading.

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In other sports news, Jerry Jones will not sue the NFL over Roger Goodell’s contract. But he’s not stopping his crusade entirely:

Though he has stepped back from embroiling the league in a costly and embarrassing legal fight, Jones is not done trying to influence the outcome of the contract extension. In his letter, he said he was trying to “prevent more damage to the league. He noted that television ratings had continued to decline, demand for tickets had fallen, and there was more “discontent amongst our fans than ever before.”

He said the league office had an inflated staff and budget, sponsors believed the league had “credibility issues” and the league had spent too much time fighting players in court.

This week’s College Football Playoff rankings has Miami jumping to No. 2:

Fourth #CFBPlayoff Rankings: Top 2️⃣5️⃣ for games played through November 18 http://pic.twitter.com/8nowa91muv

— College Football Playoff (@CFBPlayoff) November 22, 2017

The “Japanese Babe Ruth”, Shohei Ohtani, will be able to sign with an MLB team in December.

Missouri freshman Michael Porter Jr. will miss the remainder of this season after undergoing back surgery:

Statement from #Mizzou:

Michael Porter, Jr. will undergo surgery on Tuesday, Nov. 21, in Dallas, Texas. The procedure, a microdiscectomy of the L3-L4 spinal discs, has a projected recovery time of three-four months and will likely cause him to miss the remainder of the season.

— Mizzou Basketball (@MizzouHoops) November 21, 2017

He played only two minutes in a Tiger uniform, but he’ll probably be a top five pick in the 2018 NBA Draft.

After breaking rules for signing amateur players, the Atlanta Braves lost 12 prospects to free agency and former general manager John Coppolella has been banned for life.

The LaVar Ball-Donald Trump feud continues:

It wasn’t the White House, it wasn’t the State Department, it wasn’t father LaVar’s so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence – IT WAS ME. Too bad! LaVar is just a poor man’s version of Don King, but without the hair. Just think..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2017

…LaVar, you could have spent the next 5 to 10 years during Thanksgiving with your son in China, but no NBA contract to support you. But remember LaVar, shoplifting is NOT a little thing. It’s a really big deal, especially in China. Ungrateful fool!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2017

Trump also tweeted out his thoughts about the NFL, again:

The NFL is now thinking about a new idea – keeping teams in the Locker Room during the National Anthem next season. That’s almost as bad as kneeling! When will the highly paid Commissioner finally get tough and smart? This issue is killing your league!…..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2017

Mike Leach with some great wedding advice:

It’s rivalry week. #WSU is one win away from the @pac12 title game.

But a reporter getting married in 9 days asked @Coach_Leach for wedding advice tonight, and Leach’s answer was incredible. I’m dying. http://pic.twitter.com/alhOiWd9Tv

— Aaron Levine (@AaronQ13Fox) November 22, 2017

Klay Thompson isn’t a big fan of scaffolding in New York City.

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In the news, today’s the big travel day for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Uber paid hackers about $100,000 to keep a massive data breach from last year secret. That affected about 57 million riders.

CBS and PBS have fired Charlie Rose after harassment allegations were published Monday.

“The Partridge Family” star David Cassidy died last night at the age of 67.

Tommy Hilfiger thinks model Gigi Hadid could be the key to peace in the Middle East.

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Let Us Marvel at Ben Simmons

Between the revelation of the Process incarnate (Joel Embiid) during the 2016-2017 NBA season, and the excitement of knowing Danny Ainge gift wrapped the Sixers a generational guard talent (Markelle Fultz) in this past NBA draft, it is easy to understand why some of the national buzz surrounding Ben Simmons has died down. And while Philadelphia hasn’t forgotten about the 6’11” point-forward, getting lost in the haze of gobbling up three potential superstars encourages fans to focus on the whole rather than the individual – and rightfully so! This Sixers collection of talent projects to do big things. But what exactly will Ben Simmons’ contributions be? And how dominant can he be?

Let me be forward about something here – the risk of being accused of a hot take fallacy withstanding: Ben Simmons’ ceiling is just as high as that of Joel Embiid. There is a confidence level behind that statement that rivals the confidence level I have in saying the sky is blue and Taylor Swift’s new single is offensive to anybody possessing a functional pair of ears. Simmons has all of the tools needed to be an elite facilitator. His height gives him vision that few initiators possess, his court awareness gives him the ability to distribute dimes from anywhere in the half-court, and his reputation as a pass-first ball-handler will inspire others around him to work for better looks. But you likely already knew this. What’s been forgotten – er, overlooked – is Simmons’ all-around game, and specifically his potential as a scorer.

Universally, the knock on Simmons is that he has a weak jumper. Many even suspect that he may shoot with the wrong hand.

Sidebar: Ben has been called left-handed, and even ambidextrous. In reality, it’s possible he’s truly right-handed, and is just forcing himself to play left-handed. Check out this clip, where he could have gone to his left and taken on fewer defenders, yet chooses his “off” hand and challenges three players, finishing a tough layup with the right:

I’m not cherry picking here, either. This happens often. Would you EVER go to your off-hand if you didn’t have to? Keep the masturbation jokes to yourself.

I will be the first to admit that Simmons’ jumper is questionable. But it’s not broken, by any means. Outside of possibly using the wrong hand… one major flaw I noticed early in Ben’s career is that his body sort sways to his right when he shoots, rather than going forward. The result is that he overcompensates in his release by pushing the ball left and rimming out. Watching his training after he became a Sixer, including his pickup games against 5’11” white Aussies, he seems to have corrected this. We can only know for sure when it’s gametime; however, it is certainly a fixable flaw regardless. Another issue with his mechanics is that he sometimes is too early in getting the ball over his head. Now, if you watch a pure shooter like Klay Thompson, you’ll see that the basketball is between his knees when he starts his jumper. This allows Klay to power the shot with his legs as he jumps and guide it with his hands. Conversely, when Simmons already has the ball at its apex before he’s even jumped, it forces him to propel the shot with his arms, not allowing for his hands to just guide the ball. He’s a flinger, if you will; he doesn’t shoot in one fluid motion. This is again cause for influencing the ball to one side rather than straight, and thus rimming out. These are fixable mechanics, something that would surely be harped on during an entire season on the bench. One can expect the jumper Simmons utilizes in 2017 to be vastly improved from the version we saw at LSU in 2015-2016.

There is this notion floating around out there that Ben Simmons cannot shoot the three. I detest that. Simmons took only three total shots from behind the arc in his lone year at LSU, which is about 747 less than the sample size needed to make any finite conclusion about a player’s shooting ability from deep. You know who else took hardly any 3PTs in college? Joel Embiid, who shot 5, to be exact. And what did he do this past season? Converted 3PTs at a 36.7% clip, nearly a full percentage point above league average. The point is that no one has any clue – okay, they have a measly three clues – what kind of 3PT efficiency to expect from Simmons; and to suggest a 21-year-old kid cannot develop his shot to at least prove the need to be guarded from deep, is quite simply ludicrous.

So if Ben wasn’t shooting threes, and if his jump shot was flawed, how did he amass 19.2 PPG at LSU? Take a look at his shot chart, per Draft Express:

One could infer concern from the chart regarding the low concentration of shots outside of six-feet from the rim. However, we now know, thanks to modern basketball analytics, that the least desirable shots in basketball are mid-range to deep-range 2PTs. (Unless, of course, you’re Chris Paul and convert at an abnormal rate.) I cannot stress this enough: it is a good thing that Simmons does not settle for mid-range shots, as well as a demonstration of his basketball IQ. It’s a wonderful habit to have the mindset to get to the rim at all costs. And just look at those numbers when Ben is close to the rim; he’s as skilled at scoring in the paint as any prospect we’ve seen come out of the draft in recent years. (Except for maybe, uhm.. Markelle Fultz.) Simmons demonstrates an ability to score at will. And he does it in a multitude of ways.

You want to play off Simmons and challenge him to shoot? Cool, see two points later after Ben blows past a defender with a full head of steam, a 7’0” wingspan and a mature touch around the basket. Thought you might put a power forward on Ben to mitigate his size? Have fun watching Kevin Love try to keep up with the man holding the record for the fastest ¾ court sprint in the history of the NBA draft combine. Trying a shooting guard on Simmons, I see? Oh but you forgot, he’s skilled in the post and comfortable with his back to the basket. Shooting guards defending in the post? Not so much. Don’t double team him, don’t you dare even think about it; he will find the open man.

Two areas where Simmons will dominate most is 1) in transition, where Ben himself has stated repeatedly that he thrives and enjoys being “creative”, and 2) in the high post. By now, you have heard or seen Simmons’ success in transition, so I would like to focus on the high post. This is where Simmons gets to make everyone around him better. Take a look at this PNR play involving Boris Diaw and Rudy Gobert:

Get used to that sort of setup, because you’re going to see it a lot. Except with Simmons, a more skilled player than Diaw in terms of getting to the rim, and Embiid, a more offensively polished center than Gobert. Just imagine any center/forward combination in the league trying to stop Simmons and Embiid from that position on the court. Now imagine an opposing wing crashing in to help, while Covington, Redick or Fultz stands wide open in the corner. It. Isn’t. Fair. At that point, Simmons just decides how he wants to hurt the opposition. Does he want to put the basketball through the hoop himself, let Embiid jump into outer space and slam it through, or give Fultz the opportunity to hit a dagger from 3PT land? In Summer League, we saw Simmons in this very situation at the high post and he proved he can even use his jumper to punish teams who decide to sag off and constrict the paint against cutters:

The lingering threat of Simmons’ ability to find teammates seemingly with his eyes closed only reinforces his ability to score. Many players pass when they can’t find a path to score. Ben Simmons scores when he can’t find a path to pass. He’s able to routinely catch defenders flat-footed, because they are so focused on obstructing his passing lanes that they forget that he has the length to be at the rim in two steps.

So we’re amazingly less than two months from the start of the NBA season. Though there is much optimism, there are also many unknowns surrounding the Sixers. How good can they be this year? Will Embiid stay healthy? Does Markelle Fultz get upset playing off-ball and deferring to Simmons? Is Brett Brown as good of an in-game coach as he is at player development? But here’s what I know:

Ben Simmons’ only major flaw is his jump shot

He is only 21 years old

He had an entire year to focus on refining his jump shot

He is going to be a phenomenal basketball player, who has likely already fixed (to a degree) his only major flaw

Sit back and enjoy these next six or so weeks. Maybe watch a couple of Sixers replays from the Process years. Remember how it feels to be stuck to the couch, uninspired by what you are seeing. Because come October 18, you’ll be jumping off it every couple of times down the court, as Ben Simmons completes jaw-droppingly beautiful passes and scores in ways that make you say, “Damn, what can’t this guy do?”

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