I get your point, to each their own and no need to be a cap guru to be considered a fan, but there's another part to the game, the managment, some fans like digging in to dissert and elaborate about cap and trades, playing virtual GMs and strategy games for the "intellectual" par of it and probably a bit to play your smart ass... That's just two different experiences. I wouldn't call me an expert, far from it, but that strategy part can be "stimulating" when you try to imagine or guess the next moves within the confines of the NBA rules. And you guess right... Yeah, Im' validated!