Jeremy Tache

It doesn't usually leak out of the locker room this early in a season.

You told us to all calm down about the Norm Powell trade.

That's not true.

No, yeah, you did.

Yes, you did.

You wanted the franchise to do something, and Norm Powell is what satiates you?

That's what you said.

That's what you said.

You said it like that, too.

Should have listened to Greg.

He knew that was a good trade.

Basketball is back, Jack, in Miami.

And it's been a minute since this particular feeling was here where you get caught up in the emotions of, oh, you got hope and a overachieving underdog over here that was down for a year when Jimmy Butler was here.

And then on the other side of the country, you've got the Golden State Warriors, and it's early for those whimpers to be coming out of a champion locker room when Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green are in that locker room.

And what you just saw happen last night, as if you didn't see it with the championship last year, is holy shit.

One of those teams is old.

And one of those teams is young.

And OKC is dragging the entire league, winning most of its games that way, except for the first couple that they took to overtime.

And Golden State, I don't think they got old fast, but that's what old looks like.

And that is a feisty, stubborn champion.