Manu Ginobili, wonderer of the universe
NBA players do not get a ton of free time during the season. The amount of time they are actually home is pretty minimal. Players do not typically just sit around and play NBA2K though. They have personal lives and interests.
And considering Manu Ginobili can do things like this:
It is no surprise Manu Ginobili is inspired by the wonders of the universe.
Back in January, before the San Antonio Spurs went on this long rodeo road trip, Ginobili and his wife drove to Austin, Texas, to see Neil deGrasse Tyson speak.
Ginobili wrote about seeing Tyson on his latest blog post:
"I could have mentioned this in my previous post but I forgot to add it. This happened on January 18th at the Long Center in Austin. With Many, my wife, we drove 85 miles to the capital of the state to see this great man give an educational, nurturing and entertaining talk. Always a pleasure to listen to him. His show Cosmos: A Spacetime Oddysey was outstanding and his podcast Startalk is great, too.After the show, we got the chance to be fans for a little bit, shake his hand and thank him for his work. One of my favorite guys ever! Follow him on Twitter @neiltyson, as of the day of this post, more than 6.7 million followers!"
Tyson is the host of the Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which aired on FOX a few years ago and explored several scientific topics and history as a reset of the 1970s series. He also hosts a popular podcast that explores the intersection of science and entertainment. Tyson is the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City.
Tyson also is pretty well known for his running commentary on scientific errors in movies. But it is all in good fun.
He bills himself as everyone’s personal astrophysicist. His engaging style and relation to popular culture has made him extremely popular for science talk.
Ginobili is quite the world traveler, of course, having come to the NBA via Argentina and Spain’s ACB League. Being on the Spurs, it is not surprising to see him have interests outside of basketball and to see that they are intellectual interests.
Or at least intellectual entertainment interests.
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Now how Ginobili saw Kawhi Leonard behind him on that play in Wednesday’s game? That is a mystery that may evade the cosmos forever.