I love sports, pretty much all of them. I am particularly fond of sports I grew up playing (basketball, football, soccer) but I am also interested in those I have zero connection to other than video games or a brief stint attempting to play (hockey, baseball, volleyball, lacrosse).
For all the great parts of these sports, the downside is that there is eventually an off-season. This is largely true for professional and college ranks (who cares about H.S. sports other than those attending the schools, I mean really). There is always a portion of the year where the interest of the fans dwindles, gets caught up in some other sport or in life in general, and then has to be rekindled when the season comes around again. Some sports are better suited for this (baseball probably has the best season, stretching from spring training in late February through Free Agency in November, only missing the hectic holiday season, plus they are the only major sport aside from golf, racing, and tennis to compete during the dog days of summer), whereas basketball, football, and hockey largely overlap one another. I am still not a fan, nor do I ever see myself being a big fan of baseball, but they did chose a nice schedule.
The NBA is capitalizing on their off-season this year with a huge group of superstars that are free agents. James, Wade, Bosh, Stoudemire, Nowitski, Johnson, Boozer...big names, with A LOT of $$$$ waiting for them somewhere in the league. There have been hundreds if not thousands of articles written about free-agency this year, which is definitely not standard protocol.
It is funny how much time has been spent examining the possibilities of where players will go, who they are talking to, whether or not there will be an NBA superstar "summit" held somewhere to figure out where players are going to go, etc. My favorite is this, and NBA slot machine to see where players will end up. Fantastic, if only it worked that way in real life.
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