This felt like an inflection point, one of those moments that, with the appropriate amount of hindsight, will prove to be the mile that marked the beginning of a sea change. The ebb and flow of a basketball season is full of subtle currents. From a distance, it can be difficult to know if the tide is coming or going until it has already come or gone. But with your feet in the sand and eyes level to the horizon, you can sometimes detect it in real time. In that sense, a season unfolds like a romance, its major plot points often foretold by the moments before the moments, the subtle deviations in the baseline, the pregnant silences and unexpected hesitations, distant trembles that begin to animate one's needle with a near imperceptible quiver.
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