Work hours in South Korea were prime-time basketball hours on the other side of the world. Taehyun Kim didn’t care for his day job. Fresh out of college, he was a finance assistant for a German IT company. His head and heart were elsewhere.
“That wasn’t my dream job,” he said.
So Kim used his computer to watch games at the office via NBA League Pass. His attention was magnetically trained on one player in particular: Russell Westbrook, the mercurial superstar point guard who collected triple-doubles like they were stamps.
Sometimes, Kim got caught.