The mass roster upheaval we’ve come to around the NBA was especially jarring this summer, with franchise players unapologetically changing area codes and aggressive teams filling out their cap sheets.
But as much as this has been an off-season full of huge dollars and new, exciting destinations, the league discourse has also been rife with unsent text messages, hurt feelings and shattered hearts.
See, we’re here to talk about breakups. Human beings are a mysterious species with mysterious emotions. Detached and celebrated as they may seem, basketball players and coaches and owners and front-office individuals share these traits, and when important decisions are on the table, they manifest in strange, occasionally uncomfortable ways.