If the idea of a musical about basketball seems like two things that don’t go together, you may be surprised when you hear the back story. Most Rockets fans by now are aware of Small Ball, the musical Rockets GM Daryl Morey is producing with Houston’s Catastrophic Theatre. What you might not know is how often basketball and the world of theater had to cross streams to make this happen.
The show, which opens this Friday night, may not have happened if not for a random Twitter question from a Rockets fan almost a decade ago. “I was doing Twitter Q and A and someone said, ‘What would you be doing if you weren’t doing what you were doing?