The offseason is the only time of the year that the NBA’s bumbling franchises and their broken fans are legitimately allowed to imagine an impossible future, a future full of magical fantasies.
Perhaps a team drafts a young hero, or trades for some new weapons, or maybe even signs a potential savior. They covet an alternate universe, wherein the defending, reigning, world champion Golden State Warriors are overthrown and finally brought back to the dust.
A long dormant dynasty in Los Angeles is dreaming such a dream.