Basketball is a sport that's full of big names like LeBron James, Steph Curry, Kevin

Durant.

But over the past month, a bunch of less familiar names have appeared on the backs of NBA

jerseys.

Our colleague Ben Cohen covers the sport.

NBA teams were putting people on the court who I had never heard of in my entire life.

And they were playing a lot.

They were starting.

And we're like the entire team.

All these new guys that Ben's never heard of, they're just villains.

As more and more players have been catching COVID, the NBA has had to go looking for replacement

players in order to keep the season going.

When NBA teams are putting out guys who even people whose job it is to know everything

about basketball have never heard of, I kind of wanted to find out who these people were

and how it was that they came to be playing in the NBA.

What Ben found was a group of men whose dream to be in the NBA had finally come true

thanks to the pandemic.

And now that they're there, they're trying to prove their worth.

These guys want to make the most of this opportunity.

It doesn't matter how it came along.

They know that it is somewhat absurd, that they want to put all that noise aside and

they want to impress people because they know that this is a chance they might not have

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