I had a weird realization with about nine minutes to go in the Trail Blazers game four playoff win over the Thunder — I had transitioned from intently watching the game to mindlessly alt+tabbing through Twitter/NBA stats pages/NBA Slack convos on my laptop.
That happens all the time during the regular season. Over the course of the season a solid quarter, or more, of the 82 games are decided with significant time left on the clock and it’s easy to open up a second screen and start digesting the avalanche of side stories the NBA provides.