Everybody loves trade deadline season. Trade rumors, excitement around change and big names dot the rumor landscape and it's fun to speculate on what might be.
But, as Stephen King once wrote, it stops being funny when it starts being you.
Not even one year after this franchise finally turned a corner with a solid, Spurs-like plan, complete with competency, consistency and, of course, unprecedented winning, the fan base has taken the downs in the ups and downs of a basketball season and hit the panic button, ready to bail out on what's been built and scrap in favor of their long-standing security blanket, The Big Name(s).