Do we really need to translate Massumi’s analysis of the ball as part-subject and the corresponding logic of relation it facilitates to every single other sport that exists? Perhaps not, though even in the shift from soccer to basketball, both relatively open-ended, flowing sports, we witness differences in the emergence of relationality, due to the different material and immaterial codings that frame the space and time of play. The following series constitutes an attempt to engage these differences through a reading of Massumi’s political economy of belonging and the logic of relation, shifting the locus of analysis from grass pitch to hardwood floor. In the process we will try to gauge the potential for sameness, difference and indeterminacy across these gamespaces and times, and perhaps also better understand its relational consequences for the moving human body.