I hope you’ve been watching the NBA playoffs this year, because they’ve been great. That’s what inserting uncertainty can do for a competition. Instead of a coronation, we had a competition. We had the expected (if you were paying attention) in that the best team in the NBA all season, Denver, was the best team in the NBA at the end of the season. We had the unexpected - a play in team not only made the Finals, but worked certain contenders (Bucks) like a speed bag. That’s not bad.
What we didn’t have was a triumph of super teams, of aggregated colossi.