Los Angeles Clippers

Each rendition of the Clippers seems to follow the same roadmap: acquisitions, expectations and then the eventual collapse.

I realized that what is missing is the contrast between two-time NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo on the court and Alicia, a 47-year-old insurance sales agent from Milwaukee, Wisconsin sitting in the stands.

The defending NBA champions could have run it back with the same team and probably felt pretty good about it. Instead, the Lakers decided they could get even better and did just that.

In perhaps his most defining moment, NBA commissioner Adam Silver found success not only on the basketball court but in everything he accomplished off of it.

They blew a 16-point lead in Game 5, a 19-point lead in Game 6 and a 12-point lead in Game 7. No team has ever choked this hard with this amount of hype.

This regular season, Luka Dončić averaged 28.8 points, 9.4 rebounds and 8.8 assists. In NBA history, only Oscar Robertson and Russell Westbrook have either matched or exceeded those numbers.

The NBA invites a higher percentage of its teams to the postseason than any other major American sports league does, but the Kings have fallen short year after year.

If these narratives from the suddenly halted NBA season can safely play out, how they end will have lasting impacts on several players’ legacies.

The NBA 2019-20 season opened with a bang, with several upsets and many astounding debuts from its players, stars and nonstars alike.

Tonight the NBA is finally back and with it comes another season of drama and excitement with the league as wide open as ever. Let’s make 10 bold predictions about this upcoming year!