The day you stop playing, your teammates become just friends. Find out which ones you’d hang with anyway.

A season builds closeness out of proximity: same bus, same drills, same hour every day. That closeness is real, and some of it is only the schedule. When the schedule ends, you find out which of those friendships had something under them besides a shared practice time.

You do not have to wait for the last game to learn this. Ask one teammate to do something with nothing to do with the sport this week, food, a film, a drive. The answer tells you plenty either way.