On basketball:
Forget Thursday’s NBA draft. The mania started well prior. Boston traded the No. 1 overall pick to Philadelphia. Paul George made it known he wants out of Indiana. Cleveland just dismissed its general manager, David Griffin. That bumbling silhouette careening down the road? That’s the Eastern Conference, inundated by change and mystery just days after the NBA Finals concluded.
This is the Golden State Effect. Everyone watched what the Warriors did in the postseason. Everyone knows Kevin Durant is returning. Everyone has to figure out some way, if there is one, to grapple with the Warriors.