In his view, a basketball team exists on three discrete levels of reality. A team is a collection of players, in the same way that a machine is an assemblage of parts. That’s the structural level. A team is also the result of a plan or set of plans. This is the design level. Finally, a team is a collection of human beings with goals and desires that exist outside the stated objectives of the franchise. This is the motivational level.

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