Recently, my WeChat has been bombarded by a round of chat messages almost every day.

This is not because Tanabata has arrived, and a kind sister is willing to spend the festival with me, the single champion of more than 20 years of motherhood. It's not because a brother suddenly becomes charitable and acts as a real hero in the group of astringent pictures that chat and push on weekdays. But the 2023 Men's Basketball World Cup will officially start in a few days. In my usually not very active ball-making group, there have been frequent discussions these days about the performance of the Chinese men's basketball team in this World Cup warm-up match.

This kind of group chat, which is mainly used to discuss basketball-related topics, I think most fans and friends should have added one or two. Most of the members inside are your classmates who played together in the early and Senior high school periods, and there are also friends who randomly formed teams on the court. You get together because you like basketball. As long as there are no people on the court one day and shout in the group, someone will immediately run for a few kilometers by bike to accompany you to sweat all afternoon.

But with the passage of time, everyone now has their own jobs and families, and some even go to other cities to live, and there are fewer and fewer opportunities to make an appointment to play, and only after the opening of the NBA League every year, there are only a few voices in the group to discuss the event.

In contrast, I should be relatively lucky-thanks to my status as a game editor, I started to bring some basketball-loving friends in the group a few years ago to come into contact with sports games such as the "NBA 2K" series and "Street Basketball. Over time, in addition to the topics of basketball and games, some people began to organize some online games from time to time, which to a certain extent made up for the regret that they could not often get together to play in reality.

This is probably the epitome of the daily entertainment of many basketball enthusiasts in China. In addition to the real court competition, in the virtual world and friends to play skills, but also let many fans enjoy it. Although everyone scolds the "NBA 2K" series every year as a kind of unenterprising leather-changing new year's goods and the balance of "street ball" online games, the new new new year's goods will still be bought every year, and a lot of krypton gold will flow out of players' wallets.