Offensive avalanches and playoff parity are the new normal in the NBA's
, play-in teams making conference and Finals runs, one element is everywhere you look in the modern NBA, and it looks a lot like Barack Obama art, circa 2007:Because in today’s NBA, everyone has a chance, every quarter, and every postseason, seemingly everywhere outside of Detroit and Washington, Charlotte and Atlanta.
As a result, ratings are booming -- Game 2 was the highest since 2019. Franchise valuations are soaring into rarified billionaire air. Enthusiasm and league-wide energy of possibility permeates from casuals to CEOs. Hope – like this year’s Lakers and Wolves and recent others staring down the barrel of a broom/sweep – still springs eternal. Even if the wait for that 150-something and zero streak of 3-0 defeats soldiers on another year. Even if the odds of slim and none somehow come to roost, these 2024 Finals do feel like a harbinger of something bigger: the future.
— only with Luka and Nikola staring down officials for a whistle, rather than each other, angleshooting for any advantage.
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