Quote:
Scoring in professional basketball is one of the most beautiful things in sports. With only moments to set up his shot, a player tosses a ball into a soaring arc, and it drops through a hoop only slightly larger than the ball. That or he flies to the hoop and deposits the ball directly.
Leaving aside the dubious statistical claims, this is one of the most hilariously bad pieces of writing I've read in a while. He sounds like an alien who heard about this game called "basketball" and is trying to fit into a sports conversation by uncertainly recalling how it's played.