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Photograph by Erik Drost,\u00a0via Wikimedia Commons<\/a>. Licensed under CC BY 2.0<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

At times of especially blessed sports spectatorship, which the Knicks\u2019 past few weeks have undoubtedly been, I often return to David Foster Wallace\u2019s 2007 essay \u201cHow Tracy Austin Broke My Heart.\u201d Ostensibly a pan of the tennis player\u2019s 1992 memoir, <\/span>Beyond Center Court<\/span><\/i>, the piece is really about the perceived chasm between a great athlete\u2019s genius and their apparent inability to talk about it after the fact. Whether players are recounting their in-game heroics moments later, as in a postgame interview, or years later, as in memoir form, they tend to deliver the same clich\u00e9s: <\/span>We\u2019re taking each game one point at a time, focusing on the fundamentals, believing in the team<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I thought of this again after Game Four of the NBA Finals, when OG Anunoby addressed reporters at Madison Square Garden. They were marveling at his now-famous tip-in, sunk with 1.2 seconds left on the clock. \u201cYou just hit the game-winning shot in an NBA Finals game in front of your home crowd,\u201d asked one reporter. \u201cHow does that feel?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels cool.\u201d This said shrugging. \u201cI mean, everyone\u2019s pretty excited. I\u2019m excited too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

An eruption of laughter; OG\u2019s guileless what-am-I-supposed-to-say smile. \u201cWe\u2019re all excited,\u201d he elaborated. \u201cWe\u2019re just focused on the next game now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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For Wallace, this kind of routine is \u201cbitterly disappointing.\u201d He wants ever-closer access to his heroes\u2019 quasimystical abilities, but their language invariably fails to close the gap. By the end of the essay, he has resigned himself to this \u201ccruel paradox\u201d: \u201cthat we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able truly to see, articulate, and animate the experience of the gift we are denied.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I would propose an alternative model. We spectators, attempting to wedge the exhilaration of kinesthetics into language, are not truthful illuminators but addicts\u2014grasping at words to explain and recapture the euphoria of witness. Of course, these attempts fail by definition, because one of the elite athlete\u2019s gifts is to leave language behind. Their state of grace is characterized by absolute presence, a kind of plotlessness; when it matters most, the greats know how to inhabit each moment on its own terms, rather than string them together into a fated narrative. The simplicity with which Anunoby sums up his play, is the essence of his excellence. Undistracted by past triumphs or failures, he calmly addresses what the moment demands.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whereas the spectator\u2014the fan, the analyst, the writer\u2014relives furiously. Between games, and after championships, we rewatch highlights or consume rabid fan theories about what adjustments the team needs to make. We abandon the present wholesale. We get entrenched in narrative. It\u2019s not our fault, really. Language is a synthetic substance that alters its subject, shoehorning a tactile instant not merely into words but into the arc of a sentence with a beginning and end. At which point we have already lost the athlete\u2019s immediacy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Wallace briefly allows that there may be a reason for the athlete\u2019s reliance on clich\u00e9. In her biography, Austin describes the aftermath of her 1989 car accident, which shattered her knee, bruised her heart, and ended her career at the age of twenty-six. When Austin writes that she \u201cquickly accepted\u201d the consequences of the accident, perhaps she is not failing to testify but successfully being concise. Her banal recap might be \u201c<\/span>exhaustively descriptive<\/span><\/i>\u201d (his italics) of her mental state under pressure. In fact, he suggests, all of these athletes at their pivotal junctures, amid the overstimulation of the arenas, might be thinking \u201c<\/span>nothing at all<\/span><\/i>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not quite true to say that, in these states of heightened presentness, athletes are thinking \u201cnothing.\u201d It\u2019s more that those states are immune to the durational time language demands. Clich\u00e9, ready-made and reflexive, offers an instantaneity that, in its own way, distills the basic experience of those enthralling athletic moments. When Jalen Brunson insists that the key is to treat the score like it is 0\u20130 (a favorite maxim of his), and the fan\u2019s eyes glaze over because that is not the insight they were looking for, some basic truth is still revealed: that pure athletic excellence is plotless; each moment, shorn of story, is more or less the same. The discipline required to treat each second \u201cunburdened by what has been,\u201d to use a new clich\u00e9, eludes us spectators, us narrative addicts. But for athletic geniuses, it is ordinary, and only a language so ordinary that it negates itself comes close to conveying that contradiction.<\/span><\/p>\n

Which is why I remain enchanted by certain perfect refusals: not only Anunoby\u2019s stone-cold shrug-off, but also the moment when the hosts of a Knicks podcast, live streaming the aftermath of that Game Four, blew out their mics, howling and wheezing, leaving only the muffled pulse of what sounded like them rolling around on the floor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Or when Brunson, number 11, El Capitan, the king of New York, was asked courtside after the Knicks\u2019 championship victory in San Antonio on Saturday, their first in fifty-three years, \u201cCan you express\u2014<\/span>this<\/span><\/i>\u201d\u2014here the interviewer waved his hands at the stands\u2014\u201cwith half of the city of New York here?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNah,\u201d said Brunson. He\u2019s right.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photograph by Izzy Ampil.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Isabella\u00a0Cacdac Ampil is a writer with work in <\/em>The American Scholar<\/span>,<\/em>\u00a0Harper\u2019s<\/span>,<\/em>\u00a0The Drift<\/span>,\u00a0The Wall Street Journal<\/span>, and<\/em> Pitchfork,<\/em> among other publications.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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