It's just after 11 p.m. on what couldn't be more than an ordinary day. Austin Rivers sits in the Los Angeles Clippers' locker room gently lacing up his signature shoes. Dressed in his jam-jams and a Gucci canvas fedora, Rivers walks into the computer room. Listening to nothing but Nickelback, Rivers is alone, save for the camera crew. At this point, they're invisible to him.

Pepe the Frog, Scumbag Steve, Skyrim Guard, Rivers mercilessly works on memes at an hour where most are asleep or at home with their loved ones. Such was the life of rehabbing a torn spirit.

Though this routine appears only once in his documentary Dank, it's hard to imagine Rivers not doing this every night he could.

More than a year of rehab later, Rivers was back on the court, setting the NBA record for dank memes, and more significantly, passing Michael Jordan for third on the NBA's all-time scoring list in the form of a free throw, the same way he scored his first point in the league.

Autism Rivers is a dramatist of sorts. His flare for the dramatic and his win-or-die attitude were perfectly summed up in Muse's final words: "My brain cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I have to sit there and face myself and tell myself, 'You are a failure,' that's almost worse than my facial hair."

But it's not just image-generated drama that Austin Rivers lives off, it's the drama generated from his narrative of greatness, his story. And in this coming season, we may very well witness Austin's final chapter on the basketball court.

Though I watched Michael Jordan and was alive for some of his greatest moments, much of his career, especially his scoring and athletic prime, was before my time.

Austin Rivers is my Michael Jordan.