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“We are applying the statutes as Congress wrote them, which are complex and sometimes require us to jump through a lot of hoops to get there.”

He also came from Belgium by way of UC Santa Barbara—a far cry from a college hoops blue blood.

For now, Newman is still stuck in limbo trying to care for Luna and get the medical help she needs while jumping through every hoop the system can throw at her.

“With ‘Goon,’ he would have put pressure on himself” to jump through the hoops required of a performer, she says.

“Expensive Basketball” is an encyclopedic romp through hoops history, footnotes strewn throughout like so many perimeter ball screens, threads blissfully unconnected.