The document discusses the concept of a "Global Village Basketball" thought experiment where millions of simultaneous pickup basketball games around the world are all connected through technology, sharing scores and communicating in real-time. It explores how this could shift competition to cooperation and analyzes the implications through lenses such as theories of sporting empire, immaterial and biopolitical labor, concepts of smooth and striated space, and ideas of molar/molecular and flight. The document cautions that such a vision is not a universal sporting utopia free of power structures.

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