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Why I’m Watching More Sports.
NBA analyst, here I come!
If you had told me a year or two ago that I would be closely monitoring the NBA Playoffs and actively familiarizing myself with the superstars of the WNBA, I would’ve laughed hard in your face, while emphatically denying such a thing.
Not to say that I was completely withdrawn from the world of sports — I grew up heavily invested in soccer and tennis. As a child of the eighties who matured into the nineties, I was well aware of the giants of those eras, but my mild interest didn’t go beyond the career highs and scandalous lows.
But once COVID-19 literally shut it all down, and forced a reimagined lifestyle that we never could’ve predicted, suddenly I had the reprogrammed mindset to absorb the highly-anticipated documentary — Last Dance — which made its debut in the spring of 2020, a little bit ahead of schedule.
The stunning docuseries produced by ESPN and Netflix arrived just in time to give quarantined viewers a much-needed respite, and the nourishment of appreciating the triumphant final lap of NBA phenom Michael Jordan with the once-reigning Chicago Bulls.
Just weeks before the premiere of Last Dance, another NBA legend also featured in the doc starring his lifelong idol, who eventually became more like a big brother, Kobe Bryant, tragically…
