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🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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0:00.0 | Can basketball save the world? Have we been looking in the wrong place? Politics and |
0:07.7 | religion when we should be looking to a sport to save us? Today we're going to discuss |
0:12.2 | a fascinating book by a professor at |
0:15.2 | NYU named David Hollander and it's titled how basketball can save the world. |
0:20.2 | Now before we get to the book and some of the stories that we love, some principles we agree with, some things we might take issue with, |
0:26.2 | I want to know your general take on this book because I'll tell you Scott, he had me at hello. |
0:37.0 | I read this to my wife. He starts off and he says this. He says it's like this. I walk by a basketball court, any court, I stop, full stop. |
0:43.0 | If they're playing, I'll hang out for a while, |
0:45.0 | just to watch, to hear basketball sounds, |
0:48.8 | lose myself, forget time. |
0:52.0 | He says, I see it as an existential matter as if without it, I'm not really even here. |
0:57.0 | Now that might sound over dramatic to some of our viewers, but just think of something that you love. |
1:02.0 | Maybe some people love to |
1:03.4 | surf, maybe people love to read, work on a car, art. I've always felt that way about basketball. |
1:10.4 | So when COVID hit, I thought my days were done at 40 playing days and my son who's in high school |
1:17.7 | He goes dad let's play I got no one to play with and I laced up my shoes and for a year we played and I could compete with him in high school |
1:24.1 | players it was like I felt alive it was one of the hidden blessings in that time |
1:28.9 | so when he starts off here's somebody who loves the game of basketball and he's talking about big |
1:34.4 | theological cultural issues. I'm all in what was your take? Well I think full |
1:40.1 | disclosure for all of our viewers Sean and I are both basketball junkies. |
1:44.9 | We both played. |
1:46.3 | Sean played a little longer than I did competitively. |
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