Reunion games are only fun for so long. In what was the fourth and final meeting between the Brooklyn Nets and the Cleveland Cavaliers tonight, the hugs and hellos exchanged among ex-teammates and coaches couldn’t have been as tight and vibrant as they had been earlier in the year.
Calling all that a charade implies ingenuity, which isn’t something I’d say was a factor here. When you see their interactions, either in person during pregame warmups or in the montages YES plays while phasing in and out of commercial breaks, you can tell many of these guys are as thick as thieves.