Love Is In The Air

I was watching the highlights of NBA on the treadmill last night. And I realized that there are quite a few having such a strange habit like me out there.

"I spent my summer watching old games on the treadmill."
Bill Simmons
ESPN Page 2 Columnist

The season opener featured the L.A Lakers against the Mavericks. And it was followed by the highlights of the game between Spurs and the Suns. The pace was lightning and it was actually breathtaking to just watch them play.

Basketball is the very reason why I am in the gym in the first place. And if I am to give a few reasons to watch NBA, there are the following:

First, there is grace and beauty in each seemingly flawlessly choreographed games.

Then as Michelle Branch puts it, there is emotional intensity.

A little bit of laughs
A little bit of pain
I'm telling you, my babe
It's all in the game of love

And there is poetry.

I want to see players make plays at crunch time as much as the next person, but I also want to savor these moments when the game, regardless of the score or the situation, is just a short, perfect poem on the rush of opportunity unfolding in front of you and the beauty of choosing the one true path.

Eric Neel
ESPN Page 2 Columnist

Grace, beauty, emotional intensity and poetry.... I think I am in love.