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I've been stunned by this development.

As a lifelong basketball fan, I think I'm in love with soccer.

I am. Never like soccer in my life,

except for during World Cup time, but I think it has stuck. I think the soccer bug is in my system,

and I think it's terminal. I do. Because why? It reminds me of hoops. It reminds me of hoops.

I've been watching the World Cup, right? Like a lot of people.

And I'm not going to pretend I'm some kind of soccer guru because I'm not. I like no, almost nothing.

I don't know. I don't know what words mean. I don't know what player positions are. All I know is what my two

basketball-minded eyeballs see. And love it and I have loved this

knockout stage there's just something about the passion and the pageantry that has sucked me in

never mind all the human rights abuses and probably killing a journalist for making a statement

about you know love is love.

Who knows?

We're going to just put that to us to the side for a second.

Rest in peace to Grant Wall, in all seriousness.

He was not absolute awesome dude.

But if you watch Hoops carefully, you can understand soccer pretty well as well, right?

It's like the NBA. It's like spacing and flow and star players, star studs, just like the

association.

One of the more astounding stats in the NBA, and we've talked about this before, is that no

team, no team has won a championship since the late 1970s, without a current or former starting all-star on the team.

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