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Originally Posted by djchameleon
It's an e-sport regardless of the level that it's played at but obviously the more skilled players will be at the pro level.
Your friends playing a pick up bball game wouldn't hold a candle to NBA players.
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To add - me and my friends, or your friends, or
Prince and The Revolution playing a random game of basketball is just that - playing a game of basketball.
When you do that, you don't go from being a spectator to being a sportsman - you go from being a spectator to being a player, the key term being "player" - as in, "to play" - recreational, for fun, etc.
You would, however, become a sportsman if you and your friends entered a local league and played competitively. I think the same applies to all forms of sporting activity. Until you're competing on a serious level, for the sake of victory and advancement, that's a totally different thing than playing for fun.
Which isn't to say you can't find competing for victory and advancement fun in itself, or that you can't have fun while achieving those goals, just to say that the two aren't the same thing, and sportsmanship(sportsmanhood?) is defined by the competition and rules of competition, not by the nature of the game/sport/whatever term you want to use.