The tweets of Pau Gasol, an N.B.A. center, used to ricochet between the email inboxes of Alan Yang, a co-creator of the Netflix show “Master of None,” and Chelsea Peretti, a comedian and cast regular of Fox’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.”
“Every one ended in an exclamation point and expressed his enthusiasm and curiosity for life,” Yang said. (A recent tweet by Gasol contained a photo of him shirtless and reading a book by a pond, declaring, “Finding wonderful places to read!”)
Yang and Peretti knew what made good entertainment, and they saw it in the N.