How Do You Tell A Better Story In Sports By Jay Caspian Kang

Arguing with “old-heads” about anything, in particular basketball, can prove to be a frustrating, and nonproductive pastime. With counter explanations to your clearly stated statistics, usually resulting in “Because I say so”, lets a player and his team’s statistics take a back seat to the overdramatized stories used to sell tickets, and merchandise. In Jay Caspian Kang’s article, “How Do You Tell a Better Story in Sports?”, Kang argues that the drastic change in sport analytics from overdramatized journalism, to hard cold-cut statistics constantly being argued and compared to each other, is for the better. To help further convey his views, Kang uses emotional appeal, credibility, and the use of logic to both compare and contrast the way sports

He also conveys to his audience that he feels the over- dramatization of the Olympics, as well as the drama surrounding Kevin Durant, and the Oklahoma City Thunder played all on emotion, in which he doesn’t agree with. King then gives insight on how the media appeals to logic, when covering the trade, by going into detail about the heart broken Oklahoma City fans, and how they responded to the broken bonds of a city and its star player. Additionally, Kang also offered insight to the relief fans and journalists felt when Rustle Westbrook decided on staying in Oklahoma City. The diction Kang introduces conveys that the fans treated Westbrook with tremendous respect being that he represented the “Good Guy” staying with the team he was drafted by. In doing this Kang directly makes it clear that fans obviously respect a loyal teammate opposed to one who chases the better deal, much like any other aspect of

When addressing his older audience, he refers back to the dramatized typecast of “Bird and Magic”. He refers back to the 1980’s, and confirms with the audience how each player was characterized by sports media. Furthermore, he used the ascribed characteristics given to both each player, as well as the city they played for to drive home his use of Logos towards the older readers. To pertaining to addressing the younger readers, he briefly refers to the Rio Olympics, and then goes into further detail regarding Keven Durant, and The Oklahoma City Thunder. Going into accurate detail about the Durant/ Westbrook breakup, and accurately capturing the arguments of both sides, Kang confirms his credibility with his younger audience. This creates for his audience, regardless of age, a sense of confidence in the Kang and his argument, thus stregnthing his creditability. This specifically is important for Kang to do so because, authors when creating an artile of this nature are always battling with establishing and maintaining how creditable the audience perceives the