I tried to watch basketball tonight. It didn't work. Uniforms leapt and shot and flowed into grey. Clocks stopped at the sound of spasmodic buzzers. My team is gone, dismissed like fidgeting pupils on the first hot day of summer. So I didn't care. But I've never met any of them. Their successes and failures, their outsized talent in search of a small gold-plated orb, none of it effects me. So I didn't care tonight. But why did I ever?