Basketball season started tonight: Why you should care:

Recently a friend of mine explained in his post why he hates sports. I can’t disagree with anything he said. Sports talk is usually stupid, and I too, can't seem to care about soccer, pro-football, baseball, tennis, golf, and countless other games. Hell, I don’t even like women’s basketball. But I like real Pro-Basketball. NBA, European, Brazilian, what have you— if it’s professional men’s basketball, I will probably enjoy watching the game.

Why basketball? It has the best combination of explosiveness and grace. You see some guy go from an all out sprint to a complete stop, to a four foot leap, and then he finishes with a 16 foot arc shot. There is something impressive about the balance between bustin’ a nut using all one’s strength to leap in the air, and then trying to gently flick a ball into a hoop. And if that sounds stupid (or overly erotic) think of this:
1) TeenWolf 1 is awesome. A wolf playing basketball is great. TeenWolf Too (2) is not awesome. A wolf boxing is just horrible
2) Of any sport, what would you want to watch Spiderman play? Baseball? Tennis? Football? Come on, the answer is basketball. It is the best showcase of superhuman abilities. That’s why I like watching pro-ball. I always sit there and say “holy shit! how the fuck did he do that?”
3) I too hated high school jocks. They were jerks who had reason to believe that their mediocre skills merited special attention. This is the same reason today why I hate most of the people in bands or in the "local scene" and all the attention they get or think they deserve. The pro-basketball players are not the morons from high school. No one you knew from high school was good enough to play at their level. It would be like me hating Mick Jagger because some jerk hipster in a basement band thought he was cooler than me. Face it. Even if you did know a jerk in high school who made it to the NBA, he might of been arrogant because even though he was a nothing at the time and only in his teens (and considering where most NBA players come from, impoverished), he knew that he was going to be far wealthier than anyone he had ever met in about three years.
4) The phrase "Slam Dunk".
5) Rasheed Wallace