I really enjoyed the beginning of this article. I thought the author did a great job of grabbing my attention and transitioning it into his point of view. I loved how the author used his love for basketball and tried to make it relate to his opinion. I thought it was really cool how he put in information on how basketball came to be. I also thought it was cool how the author presented this idea that Thomas Jefferson stated; "The liberating rule that civilized us yesterday will, almost inevitably, seek to govern us tomorrow, by suppressing both the pleasure and the disputation. In dong so, it becomes a force of violence itself." It definitely opened up my eyes to think, but I'm not quite sure what opinion I've formed on that.
Something that I really didn't like or agree with was when the author stated that basketball was not a religion, but better than a religion. I just felt this author was taking it a little too seriously. Maybe he meant it in a symbolic way, but I didn't get that from the context around it. I felt almost when reading this article that it went downhill with my attention. I feel that he went way off into left field with his views and tried to incorporate this extreme love for the sport of basketball with what he had opinions about. I can see some of his "connections", but it was almost too forced and I don't know if I agree completely. I feel like from my prospective it was almost hard to understand. I'm not really into following basketball per say (except for Ohio State of course!), so maybe his opinions would have made more sense to a viewer who was just as passionate about basketball as the author was.
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