The NBA Is Back. Welcome to the Texas Basketball Golden Age.

The NBA season starts tomorrow, and we are all smiles. Sure, the 82-game regular season is too long—just wait for January, when everyone is injured and tired—but now, four months removed from the conclusion of the NBA Finals, we exist in that beautiful period when records are unscathed and players are limber, when any lingering memories from last year have been replaced by optimism, often delusional, for the present one. Game four of the NBA Finals? The Houston Rockets’ offense? Kyrie Irving, with a torn ACL, wasting his $119 million contract? Kevin Durant’s thirty-fifth (alleged) burner-account scandal? Call it selective amnesia (sweet Kevin would never speak ill of his teammates), but we’ve put all of that out of mind as the new NBA schedule stretches…

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