The start to this most recent NBA season has been a strange one. The Jazz were supposed to tank, but now they’re leading the West. The Nets were supposed to be a superteam but now they’ve fired their coach and KD hates all his teammates. The Lakers… well, they suck, as expected. And seemingly every other team is mired between eight and 10 wins.
With the field this wide-open and no team outside of perhaps Milwaukee and Boston quite sure how to feel, it’s been hard for respective fan bases to align their expectations. That is, with one huge exception.