This summer has been a complete madhouse for the NBA, and if you stay off Twitter for more than 30 minutes, you are guaranteed to miss something significant. I feel as if I’m walking through an eerie “hall of mirrors” at a summer NBA amusement park, and inside each mirror are the apparitions of outlandish scenarios that are starting to materialize right in from of me and transform from irrational to genuine.
Two of the largest shock waves or apparitions I saw come to life in the league involved two teams in the west with a checkered past—the Houston Rockets and the Oklahoma City Thunder.