The masterful, MVP point guard of the Phoenix Suns, Steve Nash, is down with the Taoist thing:

“With Steve it’s all about the flow.” Flow, of course, being shorthand
for that state of mind that artists and athletes strive to enter into,
and which in full flood entails an ecstatic expansion of consciousness
that releases them from confines of the self and produces crowning
moments of creation and performance — not to get too mystical about it.
Maybe the truest picture of Nash depended on seeing him in motion, in
the flow; whether he was threading a half-court bounce pass or
exploiting his small window of fame to get potable water to third world
villages or practicing surreptitious acts of generosity….

     Compare that notion of "flow" with Chuang Tzu’s description of how the cook gets close to Way through his complete immersion in the task at hand:

The cook [player] put down his knife [ball] and
replied: "Tao is what I care about, and Tao goes beyond mere skill.
When I first began cutting up oxen [playing the game], I could see nothing but the ox [the game].
After three years, I could see more than the ox [game].  And now, I meet the
ox [game] in spirit.  I’ve stopped looking with my eyes.  When perception and
understanding cease, the spirit moves freely…

 Whenever you hear the term "in the zone," remember, it is a Chuang Tzu idea…