Pushkin.

So we're walking across a parking lot in Sikakis, New Jersey.

We're surrounded by concrete, nothing green.

It took a lot to get me to this place.

They're chain hotel and motels in someone's idea of a mall.

But I have a hunch, a suspicion, about the crisis that we find ourselves in.

It's filled with cheap chain restaurants and we're surrounded on all sides by freeways.

It's like what people think about when they tell jokes about New Jersey.

I think you can see what's going on right here in Sikakis.

We're approaching a four-story rectangular, otherwise nondescript concrete building.

There's a discrete little sign here that says NBA and shows a logo with a basketball player.

Inside, a recent concession to the world we live in.

The Replace Center, a place where basketball referees review the calls made by other basketball referees in real time.

To minimize referee error.

The Replace Center was built to persuade people that life was fair.

I'm Michael Lewis and this is against the rules.

It's a show about, well give me just a minute to get to that.

This is peak beige.

It doesn't get beige or doesn't.

This is a place where brown is an exciting color.

And the door is locked.

For me, this story really begins not in Sikakis but in Berkeley, California with my 11-year-old son.

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