Basketball: The Other Indoor Winter Sport
I’ve only been to a handful of basketball games; no one in my family is really a big fan. Our collective favorite team is the Globetrotters, who are the only “professional” team I’ve seen live. Bearing that in mind, here is why I’ve never been able to get into basketball – there’s just too much happening.
Yeah, that’s it. Too much. At a Nashville Predators game, you consider a high scoring game to be something like 5-3 or higher. Rarely do you see the combined scores break double digits. Meanwhile, that score can be achieved in mere minutes in basketball.
You spend so much time watching them dribble, score, dribble, score, back and forth like cats watching a game of Pong. While each basket is a celebration, it isn’t that important to the overall game – not like a goal in hockey. Even though hockey can have some dry spells between goals, at least there’s always the promise of a fight looming over the ice, something to snap us out of our trances. In basketball, you look forward to the rebound, then you lather, rinse, and repeat.
Why hockey is better: Especially our Colorado Avalanche players, they're warriors! pic.twitter.com/2keYvx5X0p
— MileHighSticking (@MHSAvalanche) July 23, 2016
Sure, Space Jam is a cultural icon that will never be matched, but not even Bugs Bunny can make basketball more than vaguely interesting.
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