Court-Side Vision

“man holding ball jumping near portable basketball hoop” by Frederik Löwer on Unsplash

This is an essay about a small point — about those who aren’t necessarily misinformed or delusional, but somehow nevertheless manage to see something in a game of basketball that simply isn’t there. While there is research that shows that someone who has played basketball is able to recognize a basketball play better than someone who hasn’t played basketball, I think that this phenomenon is also the result of — and bear with me — a relationship between the…