You can always count on July to provide the kind of drama for NBA fans that would make any daytime soap opera or reality TV devotee hypocritically cringe. We love our basketball, and let’s face it, we get consumed by the drama of it all. The latest comes to us from New Jersey and the NBA’s favorite odd couple, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. Those two are going to be the grist that the NBA media mill needs to keep grinding while baseball elbows its way in for attention. But more on them later. First, one more reflection on Steph Curry and let’s say our proper goodbye’s to Gary Payton, Otto Porter Jr.