Real Life NBA

Maybe you're not like me. Maybe you don't wonder what it's really like to play in the NBA. I'm not talking about being rich or playing a game for a living.

I'm talking about having people befriend you for the wrong reasons, having to work out all the time or lose a step to the competition, eating ten thousand meals a year in restaurants, never being home, and trying to make conversation with athletes all the time.

Not that I pity NBA players by any stretch of the imagination. We all have it tough. They have it less tough, to be sure.

I just bet that, in terms of all those small quality of life things, it's hardly a dream.

But don't take my word for it. Here's a lengthy direct report from the last guy on the bench of the NBA's best team so far this year, the Phoenix Suns.