That was my role: the dutiful son, the All-American boy with an All-American fifteen-foot deadeye jump shot and an All-American 3.5 GPA” (27). What does All-American mean? Why do you think it was repeated?

All American essentially tands for "expectations". In Rashad's case, these expectations are familial, as well as societal. Rashad, none-the-less, feels as if he is expected to be like his father. The dreams his father lost in Afghanistan were now transferred to him.