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Okay buddy, sit down. Put the remote down, this is important to the game of basketball that you love.

You know how every year some NBA teams spend the entire season losing on purpose? Not because they’re bad necessarily, but because they want to get draft lottery balls. They call it tanking, and for the last twenty years it has essentially been the league’s version of f...


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Let’s be clear about something before we start.

I don’t want to talk about the Western Conference Finals right now. OKC and San Antonio can wait. Yeah yeah I know, best NBA matchup possible, two franchises shaped by the Warriors’ dynasty, playing for a trip to the Finals. And yet I genuinely do not care at this moment because something more important just happened.

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Down 22 points with eight minutes left in Game 1, the Cavaliers had the Knicks exactly where every team wants an opponent in a conference finals game. The Garden was quiet. Jalen Brunson was struggling. Nine days of rust had turned New York’s offense into something that looked like a team running plays they half-remembered from a dream. Cleveland was cruising.

And then ...


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Let’s get the history right first, because it matters.

Back in May of 2016, the Oklahoma City Thunder walked into Oracle Arena and stole Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals from the defending champion Golden State Warriors. Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook overwhelmed a 73-win team on its own floor. By the time OKC grabbed a 3-1 series lead, the basketball world w...


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Nobody told me I was supposed to care about this series.

Knicks-Cavaliers. Eastern Conference Finals. No LeBron. No Patrick Ewing. Just Donovan Mitchell and a bunch of guys I’d normally file under “solid team, wrong era.” Pass the remote.

And then I looked at the roster and saw the name.

James Harden.

That James Harden. The same James Harden w...


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