In today’s NBA, you simply don’t see much in the way of true rivalries.
There are seemingly a lot of reasonsing why there aren’t too many rivalries now. Players are really close friends now, the NBA has gotten soft, social media has gave players the ability to become closer, players trying to protect their brand…whatever the case is, we just aren’t blessed with the rivalries that were the norm back in the grit and grimy era NBA of the 1990s and early 2000s.
But now, we can look forward to a new rivalry: the one that hopefully will blossom between Karl-Anthony Towns and Joel Embiid.