Opinion – Juca Kfouri: Basketball is a diabolical sport and the NBA confirms it

Mestre Armando Nogueira said that basketball was created by God and administered by the devil.

The start of the NBA’s decisive series confirms.

With impossible three-pointers, with unimaginable mistakes, with terrifying dunks, with heartbreaking twists, with brilliant assists.

It’s to stay overnight.

The nights in our schedule start around 8:30 pm and end four hours later.

“Sleep is for the weak”, shouts Everaldo Marques on SporTV and after a “Bum bum bum shakalaka” to celebrate a dunk like Rômulo Mendonça does, on ESPN, it’s really impossible to fall asleep.

The parade of stars has it all.

The contagious grit of Draymond Green, the black version of the white Vitor Birner, who doesn’t comment on basketball, but brags about being an ace, although no one has ever seen a basket from him; the impressive symbiosis of the Splash Brothers (Irmãos do Chuá, the ball that doesn’t hit the rim, it just makes noise in the net) Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson; Curry’s student Jordan Poole, 22, on his way to surpassing the professor who is the greatest three-point shooter in history, to be only four of the stars of the Golden State Warriors, the team of the insomnia columnist.

Because when you don’t have it on SporTV or ESPN, you have the alternative of the NBA’s own app, with top-notch narrators, like Marcelo Gomes, or American, Spanish or Korean broadcasters.

The only complaint is that there is often so much conversation around here that the narration misses decisive moments – and it has to be said that most commentators, ex-players or journalists, are very good.

Basketball kills, just like the president of Flamengo Gilberto Cardoso, who had a heart attack after the winning basket in the 1955 Campeonato Carioca game against Sírio Libanês.

Basketball makes husband wake up his wife in the hotel in Paris, early in the morning, almost in the morning, to tell about the feat of Michael Jordan, in the 1998 NBA decision, against the Utah Jazz.

Then, Pelé from basketball alone turned the game that seemed lost and gave the title to the Chicago Bulls, by stealing the ball on defense and making the two points of the title with 5 seconds of the end of the game.

The husband in question covered the football World Cup in France, watched the game alone in the lobby of the hotel where he was staying. Sheet set up his essay, and he had to tell someone what he had just seen…

That same citizen, 30 years earlier, at 18, for the main team of Clube Athletico Paulistano, had played, that is, entered the court to see from inside the team of Corinthians, Amaury Passos, Renê, Rosa Branca, Ubiratã and Wlamir Marques, in the Jardim América gymnasium, in a match that ended 135 to 60 (or something similar) and meant his farewell, because he was convinced that those stars were playing a game that was not his.

In fact, the entire alvinegro quintet would take place in the NBA, which only on Thursday (21) saw the Memphis Grizzlies turn, in the last quarter, to 104-95 in a game in which they were trailing by 26 points, at the home of the Minnesota Timberwolves. As you saw, even without the Slovenian Luka Doncic, the Dallas Mavericks beat the Utah Jazz, as a visitor, by 126 and 118.

Besides, of course, the Warriors’ 118-113 victory over the Denver Nuggets, despite Serbia’s Nikola Jokic’s 37 points, because Poole and Curry scored 27 each and Thompson 26.

It’s about living!