The NBA has weird times every season. I think of George Booth's dog cartoons.
The dog's crazy, part of a scene but in his own mad world.
La-La's 3L...when LBJ RETURNED. Cleveland's 4L.
Sometimes a team has a weird season. The "Heat". Philadelphia is just tragic, shocking; painful even to an outsider. Milwaukee with Dame and Giannis underachieving; PHO. These teams' seasons are alternative universes that bubble and pop, or are thought certain to bubble in the pre-season and never do. Or that bubble and expand and mature and expand forever. Cleveland has been such a universe. A universe is created under inconceivable pressure. Sometimes they implode. Sometimes one becomes The Universe.
