NBA will get a boost from the return of the sport's second-best player, Kevin Durant. With Durant coming back from a shortened 2014-15 campaign, the league will benefit from the Oklahoma City Thunder reestablishing themselves as championship contenders, as well as the high drama leading up to KD hitting the open market next summer.
Even with Durant held to just 27 games due to injury, this past season had its share of excitement.
LeBron James and Stephen Curry battled it out in the most watched NBA Finals series since Michael Jordan's final season with the Chicago Bulls in 1998.