Sports are cool. Sports represent one of the few mediums where one can experience the full range of human emotion in a matter of seconds. Experiencing a great sports moment is an incredible feeling and when you are invested as a fan in that moment, it becomes ethereal and transcendent. The greatest game in NBA history was played last night and LeBron James delivered the single greatest Finals series performance ever. In doing so, he brought a championship back to the Cleveland Cavaliers, their first ever, and his home of northeast Ohio.
Cavalier’s super-fan critically acclaimed star of every movie he’s ever been in Paul Dano was not able to watch the game live. This, as sports fans know, is an awful feeling. To miss the live airing of your favorite team’s most important game is crushing. However, with the magic of DVR and his infinitely praise-worthy girlfriend Zoe Kazan, he was able to seize his fan experience and watch it today with no knowledge of the final outcome. Kazan, his DVR savior and equally acclaimed star of every movie she’s ever been in, captured his reaction on Twitter in the most gleeful and joyous intersection of sports and film that you’re likely to encounter in 2016.
You can see it all below.
Paul was on a plane from Korea during Game 7, so he had me DVR it & hasn’t looked at email, texts or internet so he can watch it now 🙏🏼🙏🏼
— zoe kazan (@zoeinthecities) June 20, 2016
He loves LBJ so much & cried w/ joy when he went back to Cleveland. Watching him watch this is the pinnacle of love for me I can’t take it
— zoe kazan (@zoeinthecities) June 20, 2016
.@Vilkomerson he is so tense he is holding onto my leg like a safety blanket pic.twitter.com/9MucI2HBQe
— zoe kazan (@zoeinthecities) June 20, 2016
“Now games, when they get away, usually happen in the 2nd or 3rd quarter…” LOL he’s such a nerd 4 🏀 & now he’s just yelling “how” @ the TV
— zoe kazan (@zoeinthecities) June 20, 2016
Aaaaaaaaand he’s on his feet in front of the TV with the remote in his hand at the half pic.twitter.com/ZJ9pmvX8g0
— zoe kazan (@zoeinthecities) June 20, 2016
“Wowwwwwww. Draymond Green. X-factor.” 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
— zoe kazan (@zoeinthecities) June 20, 2016
Now he’s explaining why Kyrie’s high school injury made him so good close to the basket & why the crowd is so important for game momentum
— zoe kazan (@zoeinthecities) June 20, 2016
“LeBron! You gotta get em by the throats, bud! Fuck! Come on! Let’s go! OH SHIT DID YOU JUST SEE THAT HE JUST FUCKING KILLED IT”
— zoe kazan (@zoeinthecities) June 20, 2016
“Okay Kyrie, you gotta take care of business, you gotta see that your leader is struggling…” he is crooning at the TV
— zoe kazan (@zoeinthecities) June 20, 2016
“He’s okay. He’s okay. I think he got hit in the nuts.”
— zoe kazan (@zoeinthecities) June 20, 2016
there were tears pic.twitter.com/Qt35HLP3bn
— zoe kazan (@zoeinthecities) June 20, 2016
Look at the unbridled joy on his face at the end. Sports is one of the few places you will ever see someone with that type of elation. Reading through his reaction offers a textbook example of how rabid sports fans react during games. We yell at the television, ask why and how repeatedly, scream, worry, and live. In the end, we are either heartbroken or elated, with rarely any room for the in-between, but no matter the outcome we always want to come back for more. Dano’s bliss is the best answer for why we do.
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