Dave Hannigan: Wonder and awe bringing my son to his first NBA match, via IrishTimesSport
As my son Finn walked from the concourse of Barclays Center into the arena itself last Friday night, his first ever glimpse of an NBA basketball court made his eyes widen and his mouth drop open. Slightly dazed by the primary colours of the spectacle, he stood there, transfixed, taking in the view.
Once his homework is done, he dribbles the ball the four houses to his grandparents whose driveway hoop is his church, his crucible, his playground He is four years older than the NBA, the league which has changed so immeasurably in his lifetime that Djay Jung was dropping bangers from his booth in the centre of the court, sound-tracking the entire warm-up. This bemused the grandfather as much as it delighted his grandson, a precocious pre-teen who spends far too much time in the foul-mouthed space where hip-hop and basketball collide.
The moment he traipses down the stairs in the morning he reaches for the iPad to get up to date with the final scores of the previous night’s games. Then, like some pre-pubescent American version of James Alexander Gordon’s classified check of the Saturday soccer, he offers everybody in earshot, whether we like it or not, a run-through of the results.
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