Long-time readers of my stuff may remember two of my prior pieces. One was a Pounding the Rock piece comparing the replacement of all my favorite Spurs players with new ones to the Theseus Paradox. That Paradox asked whether the slow replacement of all the component parts of a great ship meant that it was not the same ship that had won a great battle.
A related piece, from five years earlier, asked whether rooting for a Lakers team with no players that I cared about meant that I was just rooting for laundry.