The Spalding Suite, where poetry meets basketball: From hip-hop to hoop dreams
When Inua Ellams was 15, his family moved from England to Dublin. "Back then Dublin was, how shall I put it, at a youthful stage in its race relations," Ellams says elegantly. "They had these ready-made stereotypes for black kids. One was that I would be into hip-hop. The second was that I would be good at basketball. The problem was that, at the time, I didn't like either."