Hipsters, The NBA, And TV

Okay so I was having an email exchange with M'Antoni about where we should watch game 3 of Nuggets Mavs. When the option of my neighborhood, East Williamsburg, came up as a potential place to watch, a whole new conversation erupted. As verbatim as I can remember it, this was my description of watching a game in my hood.

Me - I guess we could as long as you want to watch it in a cash only bar that may or may not have a tv bigger than 13 inches."
M'Antoni - I thought hipsters loved the NBA cause it showed they weren't racist?
Me - Hipsters love the idea of the NBA. But hipsters don't watch tv.

While that obviously closed the door on watching the game in my part of Brooklyn, it also started me thinking about tv consumption, basketball consumption, and hipster time usage/wastage.

I thinks it funny when people, not just hipsters, say they don't watch tv, because it just sounds so pretentious and ludicrous at the same time. What in the hell do they do instead? If they were to follow up with, I read scientific periodicals, well then it's acceptable and quite frankly pretty badass. Who needs a tv when you have a compelling study on bee's and their vexing colony collapse disorder. But when someone answers my follow up question with, I try to live life and experience things, then I have to call bullshit on those good sirs. What exactly does living life entail? Does that mean you sit down and just take long deep breaths for hours on end? Do you get stoned and listen to your ipod while staring up into the sky? Make meth in your basement? What are all of these people up to?

As for M'Antoni's remark about hipsters loving the NBA because it says to the world that they aren't racist, well that requires some thought as well. From my limited interaction with hipsters, mostly moving them out of my way when I want to get a drink at a bar, I have noticed that they aren't much for sports. First of all, playing sports in skinny jeans seems challenging. Watching sports in skinny jeans, while less demanding, still is not recommended because it devalues your hipster street cred. And they already learned that lesson when they were teenagers with their magic the gathering cards. You never want to devalue a possession in a saturated market. They can't just sit down on a couch all willy nilly, dust off the tv, and watch basketball because next time they're in a conversation something ghastly might happen like them mentioning that great game that happened last night. What would their friends think? Correction former friends. Anyway, while hipsters probably support the idea of the NBA and the equality of races, I don't think their will be much discussion in bars aorund here about the Birdman.