Rob Mahoney

I wonder how we'll think of this time in retrospect.

But in the present tense, it's hard to feel like overwhelmingly great about where the NBA is.

And I say that despite the fact that we're probably just weeks away, days away at this point from some pretty incredible playoff basketball.

This is just a different thing in the regular season.

When you're losing regular season devotees like us and we're desperately looking for things to get excited about, I think that speaks to there being a larger problem.

Did they lose you?

I mean, just that we are...

wandering around trying to figure out what there is around the league right now to get excited about.

And yeah, normally, it feels like things are popping up all the time, right?

There are developmental stories, there are teams on the rise.

And there's like versions of those things happening.

But it all feels muted in a way that I can't quite put my finger on.

And maybe it is the Paul that Justin's alluding to.

But they're just, there's a funk around the league right now, that I think even people who live and work in it are experiencing and certainly guys like us are trying to figure out what it means.

Do we turn down the sour today?

Are we cranking up the sweet?

Yeah.

Rainbow in there.

Well, they work.

We'll find out.