Kirk Goldsberry

I mean, it's sad.

It's sad.

I'd start with this is a 36-year-old player who's made the NBA a lot better for many years.

And it's just sad that this character has now been removed from the season.

That's where I'd start, Zach.

It's always sad.

It can always happen.

But not only does Jimmy just have this devastating late career injury.

knee injury, which is just an awful situation.

But yeah, it effectively ends whatever chance Golden State had to be a frisky contender in the Western Conference as well.

So I think those are the two big headlines out of this.

One, it's just sad that this old player has this catastrophic knee injury at this stage of his career.

And then downstream effects, this affects

Stephen Curry's maybe last best chance to compete with the Golden State Warriors, which is very sad.

I mean, the NBA playoffs for 10 years now have been better in large part because of Stephen Curry and Jimmy Butler having these iconic performances in April, May, and June.

And it's just really sad now that Jimmy's injury has taken those, it looks like, taken those away from us this year.

Yeah, that seems to be where we're at.

And it's a really sad way to get to a place where you're really resigned that you're not a title contender this year.

But that sort of sober reality is going to set in, I hope, in Golden State.

Because from a team building perspective, Zach, that's the right mindset right now.