No matter how you feel about OKC vs Indy, all of the media and casual fanbase narratives are being completely thrown out of the window. Yes they're smaller markets and certain casuals will tune out because of this, but with these two teams and how they're constructed, also with the new CBA and its restrictive aprons, it throws off and makes most NBA topics sound dated and obsolete. Big 3's and filling in the roster with old hired guns/vagabond players are essentially dead so "team up" scenrios and the discussion that it generates sounds like yesterdays news. What's there to talk about with Bron & Luka if players 6-15 on the roster aren't playable in the post season? KD can't form a Big 3 anymore and if he's to have any more success before he retires he'll need to join a Minnesota type squad and give Ant support as a 2nd option. Curry can barely make through a first round series that goes 7 games and was done in round 2.
The superstar unrestriced free agent is damn near a unicorn and a ghost in this modern NBA. Any star worth a damn is under a max contract with their current team so to get a star it takes a big trade with mutliple teams involved. Zion, JA, and a few others didn't take the mantle so it appears that a plethra of future true stars aren't even in abundance like in years past. Our Clippers' GM Lawrence Frank, who's still chasing the ghost of the SGA/PG trade to this very day, is trying to sell the fanbase on open cap space in '27 & '27, but there's nobody out there that's going to save the team. Unless we want to throw $50 million a year at Trae Young or LaMelo Ball just to say we're doing something. All the star chasing teams have to develop players now. This is the final frontier and honestly, it's kind of refreshing. There was a reason ESPN kept mentioning SGA and NAW were cousins... they didn't have sh*t else to discusss or alternate fill in banter. Everybody has to do homework now from the teams all the way to the announcing booth. We've all said and there's numerous posts on how the NBA media is sh*t and the worst in pro sports. This series might steer it in the right direction.
The superstar unrestriced free agent is damn near a unicorn and a ghost in this modern NBA. Any star worth a damn is under a max contract with their current team so to get a star it takes a big trade with mutliple teams involved. Zion, JA, and a few others didn't take the mantle so it appears that a plethra of future true stars aren't even in abundance like in years past. Our Clippers' GM Lawrence Frank, who's still chasing the ghost of the SGA/PG trade to this very day, is trying to sell the fanbase on open cap space in '27 & '27, but there's nobody out there that's going to save the team. Unless we want to throw $50 million a year at Trae Young or LaMelo Ball just to say we're doing something. All the star chasing teams have to develop players now. This is the final frontier and honestly, it's kind of refreshing. There was a reason ESPN kept mentioning SGA and NAW were cousins... they didn't have sh*t else to discusss or alternate fill in banter. Everybody has to do homework now from the teams all the way to the announcing booth. We've all said and there's numerous posts on how the NBA media is sh*t and the worst in pro sports. This series might steer it in the right direction.
