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Published: August 15, 2009

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... If you want more info on my introduction to competitive athletics, check out my first ever B/R article for a positively heart-warming yarn...

But summarizing it is not the point of this article. Just think a little reflection on the macro of sports is necessary before I delve right in.

The NBA is, undoubtedly, a league of superstars. Basketball is a team sport, but overall lends itself to shining individual performances. The actions of off-ball defenders and teammates of the ballhandler are nuances that only educated observers would critique. This is definitely not so in football.

So as I broaden (note that's present tense; it's certainly still an ongoing process) my knowledge, I must adjust my thought processes. Football is not like basketball; there are stars, and one man can change a game, but doing so alone is much more rare. When it comes to the gridiron, what I would consider "nuances" in a basketball game (action away from the ballcarrier) might actually...

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