After analyzing Jimmy Butler’s empathy and individuality, Dan Devine and Basketball Feelings author Katie Heindl explore their favorite emotional truths from the early NBA season.

Dan Devine and Basketball Feelings author Katie Heindl discuss Jimmy Butler’s uniqueness to start this edition of Devine Intervention. Katie describes how Jimmy’s vulnerability and empathy make him a terrific teammate.

Dan invited Katie to discuss NBA emotional truths they’ve observed and enjoyed early in the season, no math needed. Katie’s first emotional fact is that Quin Snyder’s red glasses intensify an intense guy, which may explain Trae Young’s off-ball play.

Dan found his reason for watching and loving the NBA in San Antonio’s Jeremy Sochan point guard experiment. Watching a player master a new NBA position in real time is exhilarating and brave of Sochan.

A few weeks after Kelly Oubre Jr. was Һit by a car, some questioned his account. Katie’s emotional trutҺ is that basketball fans have reached a dark place where we stop seeing the human and stop allowing them to get hurt and communicate the trutҺ.

Dan prefers to watch games between poor teams and gets bored watching the Boston Celtics starting lineup play well. Katie agrees, adding she only wants to watch imperfect teams triumph creatively to mask their shortcomings.

For the final NBA emotional trutҺ, Katie struggles with the Dallas Mavericks’ likability after years of being one of the league’s least likable teams. The creative team, which creates funny movies and photographs with player buy-in, is a significant reason. How did they acquire Kyrie Irving for the “Body By Luka” video?