Never Ran, Never Will by Albert Samaha

Author:Albert Samaha
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2018-09-03T16:00:00+00:00

THE FOLLOWING SATURDAY was cloudy, and Isaiah showed up to Betsy Head early. He had no other plans that weekend. A few years ago, he’d spent many weekends with his two closest friends, who lived several blocks from his apartment, just over the Brownsville border in Crown Heights. But one of the boys moved to Queens and the other to the Bronx. Their families could no longer afford Crown Heights.

Hart was second to arrive. The two boys sat on the long green bench and talked about basketball. A rotund 50-something man who went by Boonie overheard them as he walked by. He had seen Lance Stephenson play high school ball years ago, he told them, back when he was a prodigy from the Coney Island projects, an eighth grader hooping with Lincoln High’s varsity squad. Best player he’d seen come out of Brooklyn since Lenny Cooke, he said.

“Lenny Cooke was number one, but he wasn’t humble and didn’t work hard. Y’all remember that,” he imparted. “That was a different time, though. Brooklyn ain’t what it was then no more.”

The boys nodded absentmindedly.

“Do y’all know Lenny Cooke?”

The boys shook their heads.

“How old are you? Fifteen?” he said to Isaiah.

“Nah. Twelve.”

“Twelve! When you twice that age, this ain’t gonna be the hood,” Boonie said, sweeping an arm across the landscape. “No. It’ll just be vanilla walking all around.”

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