The NBA and NFL Have Become Videogames

NFL teams are passing more. NBA teams are shooting more 3-pointers. The most popular strategies in professional sports? They’re how we’ve always played videogames.

Stephen Curry is one of the many NBA players who spent the formative years of his life playing a completely unrealistic videogame called “NBA Jam.”

There was something universal about how people behaved once they grabbed the controllers. It didn’t matter where they lived or how old they were or whether they would eventually become the greatest shooter on earth. What they had in common was the way they played the game. They did everything in their power to take as many 3-pointers as possible.

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