Sweet, The NBA Season Is About To Start
When it’s finally, finally Big Boy Season.Photo: Matthew Stockman (Getty Images) Every sports league is too long, but each is too long in its own specific way. The NFL’s mirrors the sport’s true nature as a weekly television show; Major League Baseball can make a half-convincing case for those multiple months of deeply meaningless games in its middle as part of its broader summery essence; the NHL season only ever even ends for like 18 days. The NBA season is also punishingly and gratuitously overlong, but it has an innovation that no other league has yet devised: a little more than a third...
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