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Continue to ChatWriting 'Hoop Roots' was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can't play anymore - my body won't cooperate - so in the writing of the book, I was looking to tell a good story about my life and about basketball, but I was also looking to entertain myself the way that I entertain myself when I play. - John Edgar Wideman from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/writing-hoop-roots-was-a-substitute-or-a-surrogate-activity-i-can-t-play-anymore-my-body-won-t-cooperate-so-in