Basketball is a funny sport. NBA basketball is even funnier. It is so dynamic that every game tells its own unique story, offering us watchers ever new opportunities to react wildly in any direction. But it also contains 82 games in a season, so while we can go nuts after the result of one, two, five, or ten games, what “really matters” is the unifying themes we can detect in sample sizes of 20, 40, and 82 games.
So when we asked for you readers to submit questions earlier this week the tone of the inquiries was directly impacted by Milwaukee’s poor start to 2024 and the impending showdown with the Boston Celtics on national TV.