Scoot Henderson heats up
Rookies, lasagna, and how NBA talent cooks
BY HENRY ABBOTT
All cooked, that lasagna is a triumph. Anyone can buy nice pasta, ricotta, mozzarella, onions, tomatoes, garlic, basil, and olive oil. But would the lasagna come together just so in your kitchen?
The thing in between is called cooking. There’s a fine line between putting a little toast on the garlic, and burning it. Pasta isn’t perfectly cooked for long. Not every pomodoro tastes fresh like a garden tomato. The perfect dish doesn’t happen: It’s expertise, it’s work, it’s a process. You’d be crazy to ignore what happens in the kitchen.
But in sports, we ignore the cooking all the time. We objectify, measure, and sniff around incoming players like they’re the tomatoes on the loading dock, then speculate about who’ll be part of something great. The NBA draft system ignores player development and misses all the time.
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