I started watching basketball when I was in fifth grade when I was asked to be the stat keeper for the sixth-grade basketball team. The problem was I didn’t know basketball.
So I sat myself in front of the TV, watching SportsCenter and whatever else I could find as I tried to understand that crazy game. This was 2008. The Bulls were bad, but there were two players taking over the highlight shows, and they were good enough to be known by just their first names: LeBron James and Kobe Bryant.
I followed LeBron for a couple years, but, like the bandwagon fan I was, I later changed allegiances to follow Kobe’s Los Angeles Lakers.