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All the Smoke has fascinating things to say about sports, drugs, creativity, and the afterlives of professional athletes, among many other things. But what makes it most valuable is its role as a sort of ongoing repository of oral history for an immensely significant generation of NBA players. Both Barnes and Jackson entered the league in the heat of the “prep-to-pro” era, a period from 1995–2005 when many of the best young basketball players in the country opted to forgo college in order to enter the NBA straight out of high school.