One of my favorite things about the NBA is the sport goes beyond the play on the court. It’s a community. It’s a culture.
More than any other professional sport, you feel yourself getting involved with the player’s lives in and out of the arena. Maybe it’s because they don’t wear helmets. Maybe it’s because there are only 450 of them at a time and of that, only like 100 you have to focus on.
More than the players themselves, there are so many other basketball things to engulf your life in. NBA twitter is its own reality television show, Chuck and Shaq are the most relevant analysts, and new court logos require 4,000 word articles from Zach Lowe.