Because GnG was the team's identity, it was then used as the primary defense for any time physical play stepped over the line: ZBo choke-slamming Blake Griffin, ZBo punching Steven Adams, Tony Allen air kicking Chris Paul in the face, Matt Barnes sprinting down the wrong tunnel, ZBo entering the wrong locker room, et al. It transitioned seamlessly into an organic marketing scheme that traded in the classic Us vs Them language of sport. GnG became the ethos for a throwback team content to muck things up. GnG was a spontaneous war cry, from the lips of a maniacal defender whose on-court mania was a literal avatar for Grit and Grind. Words can only stretch so far, and we've smuggled far too much inside Grit and Grind. They paint with necessarily large brushes.īut the life span of a fact is shrinking, and as such, it might be time to move past Grit and Grind. Narratives exist to package complexity into manageable doses. One of the more fascinating developments in basketball is the gap between narrative and reality.
If you don't have the patience to read a book, this one reads like a Twitter feed, bombarding you with a series of thoughts that sometimes arrive at a conclusion. Part of its purpose is to defy genre, to complicate definition, and to show that, if our time craves more than a novel, it craves the pieces of the author it can find in the novel. This book is part essay, part poem, part manifesto, and part confession. Or this: "Art is not truth art is a lie that enables us to recognize truth."īut mostly this: "Every artistic movement from the beginning of time is an attempt to figure out a way to smuggle more of what the artist thinks is reality into the work of art." Truth, uncompromisingly told, will always have its ragged edges." Or this: "Our lives aren't prepackaged along narrative lines and, therefore, by it's very nature, reality-based art - underprocessed, underproduced - splinters and explodes. Grizzlies fans - Reality Hunger, David Shieldsīest line: "The life span of a fact is shrinking." It's for all the Grizzlies fans out there. You thought we were done with book recommendations, but I've got one final recommendation.
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