Can basketball save the world? Have we been looking in the wrong place? Politics and

religion when we should be looking to a sport to save us? Today we're going to discuss

a fascinating book by a professor at

NYU named David Hollander and it's titled how basketball can save the world.

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,

I want to know your general take on this book because I'll tell you Scott, he had me at hello.

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.

If they're playing, I'll hang out for a while,

just to watch, to hear basketball sounds,

lose myself, forget time.

He says, I see it as an existential matter as if without it, I'm not really even here.

Now that might sound over dramatic to some of our viewers, but just think of something that you love.

Maybe some people love to

surf, maybe people love to read, work on a car, art. I've always felt that way about basketball.

So when COVID hit, I thought my days were done at 40 playing days and my son who's in high school

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

players it was like I felt alive it was one of the hidden blessings in that time

so when he starts off here's somebody who loves the game of basketball and he's talking about big

theological cultural issues. I'm all in what was your take? Well I think full

disclosure for all of our viewers Sean and I are both basketball junkies.

We both played.

Sean played a little longer than I did competitively.

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