Ballers is on Netflix, it is time for you to become one with Ballers

polygon.com:

One summer, I watched somewhere between 10 and 30 episodes of Ballers, HBO’s comedy-drama starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as a former NFL player turned pro athlete financial manager. I don’t remember how long it took me, nor could I tell you much about those 30 episodes, which passed through me as if I were a sieve. One doesn’t really “watch” Ballers. One becomes Ballers. Ballers, as they say, is life.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s favorite show is now on Netflix, part of a select wave of series making the leap from HBO’s premium catalog to rub shoulders with us plebes in the Big N’s peanut gallery. As much as a tectonic shift as that might be business-wise, Ballers fits right in with Netflix’s wide swath of shows you can fold laundry to. It’s lifestyle porn, a hangout show with dramatic hooks, Entourage if anyone on Entourage ever had to deal with a real problem.

As Spencer Strasmore, Johnson plays a Miami Dolphins superstar whose career is cut short by an injury. Like a lot of real-life athletes, Spencer is forced to make a hard pivot after the end of his pro career. Off the field but not out of the game, Spencer decides to reinvent himself as one of the premier financial managers for professional athletes, to make sure they get paid and stay paid even when their time on the gridiron is up. (Here is where I briefly interrupt my recommendation of Ballers to recommend the excellent documentary 30 for 30: Broke, required viewing for anyone with even a passing interest in pro sports.)

Ballers is largely about Spencer’s rise up the ranks in the business world, as he translates his athletics grindset and stamina for partying to the work of courting and coaching hot young players like Ricky Jerret (Tenet’s John David