At the tail-end of Jaylen Brown’s appearance on “Hot Ones” with Sean Evans, moments after eating a wing doused in Da’ Bomb Beyond Insanity (Scoville Level: 135,600), a question about studying a player’s rhythm and cadence sparked this answer:
“I look at basketball as like poetry in motion, which is music, and everybody is playing their own song and everybody samples from different artists,” Brown said. “If you want to stop them, you’ve got to study their rhythm, you’ve got to learn when their beat is about to drop.”
That’s a pretty beautiful way to look at this game, and as someone who loves trying to find the perfect song to match a buzzer-beater highlight, it furthered my interest in the intersection between music and sports.