To go with the farthest thing from grace

The heady, unselfconscious spectacle of Russell Westbrook.

It’s only five miles from Hawthorne, California to the Pacific ocean, but it’s so flat, comprised mostly of low stucco apartments in drab tones of sand, stout little bungalows and strip malls that stretch as far now as the open land must have seemed to the barely 50 settlers from New Spain in 1781, that there is no sense of variation, that the continent…