Transcendence and legacy

“Do you know me?”

The question is loaded, my five-year-old’s eyes sparkling like Venus in the black of night. “Will you always merember me?”

“Of course.”

And so the joke begins.

“Knock knock…” she continues.

I give in. “Who’s there?”

“I thought you said you’d always merember me!”

First, a confession:

Giannis’ well-documented journey to the NBA is both figuratively and literally the stuff of screenplays. His against-all-odds plight personifies all that is the American dream.