Programming note: there will be a Friday Links on Friday, but there will be no column next Wednesday. I am taking the time off to finally migrate this thing off of the Nazi-loving, Useful Idiot-fomenting company that is Substack. Here\u2019s a piece I wrote about this desire a long time ago<\/a>. I regret that it has taken so long. Brendan and I are trying to make the Lazy & Entitled website<\/a> a home for all of our music, <\/em>VINE<\/a> and future novell(a)s, the podcast<\/a>, and yes, this blog. Unfortunately, we both work day jobs, and in my case, care for a child. So things take a long time. Remember those two albums we recorded last year? Yeah, don\u2019t forget about those. Also, don\u2019t feel the need to re-subscribe or anything\u2014you, the reader, should just keep getting emails from me. Aren\u2019t you excited about emails? <\/em><\/p> Y\u2019all been watching the playoffs? It\u2019s been a good first round. I love the first round, even if I think both it and the second round would be a lot more fun if they were best of five. Clippers-Nuggets has been especially good.<\/p> It\u2019s been a weird NBA season for me. I\u2019ve watched less basketball and listened to fewer podcasts\/read fewer articles than I have since the 2006-07 season, which was my first season back into the game after some yearslong burnout following the end of my AAU playing days. <\/p> (my AAU playing days are not<\/em> the subject of this blog)<\/p> I want to try to figure out what\u2019s pushed me away from watching sports as much, as well as interrogate what I like about sports so much in the first place. <\/p> The practical specifics of why I\u2019m watching less\u2014my six-year-old\u2019s bedtime is in the middle of the east coast games, I like hanging out with Mal after the kid goes to bed, much more of my daytime is focused on writing<\/a> than it used to be\u2014matter a little less than this nagging feeling that something\u2019s changed. Is this an internal or external change? Feels like a little of both. <\/p> The people involved with the NBA seem to like actual basketball less and less. Not exactly the players, although my \u201cold man yells at cloud\u201d stance is that I wish active players would stop starting podcasts and thinking of themselves as \u201cbrands.\u201d It\u2019s more like pundits and former players have soured on basketball, which fuels fans into this insufferable old school\/new school false dichotomy. Concern trolls talk about ratings as if the league would *poof* disappear, every single team in every city gone in a flash, if an NBA game in February draws fewer Nielsen households than the Food Network<\/em>. Kofie knows what I\u2019m talking about. <\/p>