{"id":49153,"date":"2023-07-21T13:36:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T11:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=49153"},"modified":"2023-07-21T13:36:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T11:36:43","slug":"sports-and-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/sports-and-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports and Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"For some, sports can take the place of religion. One can see traces of this ersatz spirituality: the spectacle of ritual, the larger than life stars and idols, and the communities of irrationally devoted fans. Still, this doesn\u2019t mean sports should be rejected wholesale. On the contrary, they can become mythically charged, a location of magic. One such moment of magic occurred in this year\u2019s draft lottery of the National Basketball Association (NBA), as the San Antonio Spurs won the rights to one of the most-hyped prospects of all time. Here\u2019s a report from an insider\u2019s perspective.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI was born into a rich homeland for experiencing sports as mythologically charged: San Antonio, Texas. As I was growing up, the NBA\u2019s Spurs were building a dynasty using a combination of luck a<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some, sports can take the place of religion. One can see traces of this ersatz spirituality: the spectacle of ritual, the larger than life stars and idols, and the communities of irrationally devoted fans. Still, this doesn\u2019t mean sports should be rejected wholesale. On the contrary, they can become mythically charged, a location of magic. One such moment of magic occurred in this year\u2019s draft lottery of the National Basketball Association (NBA), as the San Antonio Spurs won the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17162,"featured_media":49154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8845,8834],"tags":[8824],"class_list":["post-49153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social","category-united-states","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}