Zen and the Art of Basketball Jerseys

Zen and the Art of Basketball Jerseys

I don't know how many of you have read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. In fact, it's been a while since I read it myself. (I read most of it, anyway. It was a class assignment in high school, and I think I didn't finish it at the time as an act of rebellion despite how much I loved it.) A great portion of the book concerns itself with the notion of "quality": how to define it, how to quantify it, where to find it, its level of objectivity, etc.

I don't think there can be any debate--philosophical or otherwise--that could define this man's actions as anything other than "quality". There are some absolutely transcendant quotations in the article. I never thought I'd make such a statement in regard to an article from ESPN.com, and yet...

[UPDATE: You can ignore the editorial box on the article's page. That wasn't there when I originally linked to it.]

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