Los Angeles Lakers, Anthony Davis (Photo by Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports)
The Phoenix Suns are playing an inferior opponent, but not in terms of the talent on the court.
For those who grew up in Los Angeles or New York, this is not directed at you.
You can’t help where you formed your first sports attachments.
For the bandwagon fans of huge-market franchises, though, you can’t be fully made whole by these teams. Can you? OK, that’s wandering too far into the philosophical landscape.
But, the theory here is that the Phoenix Suns, for example, are just easier to commit to full support than the Yankees or the Los Angeles Lakers.