dan favale (@danfavale.bsky.social)
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dan favale (@danfavale.bsky.social)
Take a sports team. Statistics about each player can tell you a lot about whether they’re going to make good additions to the team or not, but whether the group ‘vibes’ together, whether they have synchronicity, whether they work together in a group, can’t be quantified by the number of their scores or assists. Yet this collective ‘X factor’ can be... See more
Sofia Quaglia • How the brains of social animals synchronise and expand one another
When sports are at their best, the spirit of the fan merges with the spirit of the athlete, and in that convergence, in that transference, is the oneness that the mystics talk about.
Phil Knight • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
But I’ll also admit that there’s something incongruous about everything Wembanyama does. The old rules of the game no longer apply—that’s true for the league writ large as it pertains to 3s, and it’s true for the laws of physics as they pertain to the alien. Wembanyama’s simple basketball maneuvers are revelatory, and watching his best plays is lik... See more
Isaac Levy-Rubinett • Victor Wembanyama Is Letting It Rip
there is nobility in a basketball that has faded, that has gone bald.
Hanif Abdurraqib • There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Sports teams (and fans) love data and emotions are at the heart of sports, which means that experimentation could result in meaningful experiences. Or as the club contends, “serve as a study in shared passion.”