The NBA Finals between the Spurs and the Knicks seemed like a lose-lose for me. Either the Knicks and the worst fan base in the NBA wins a title and I have to hear about it for the rest of my natural life (we all will), or the Spurs win the NBA title and everyone who crowned Wemby the Greatest Of All Time before he deserved it would double and triple down on this for the foreseeable future.
As it turns out, just like there is a thin line between love and hate, there is also a thin line between something being a lose-lose and a win-win.
It is admittedly terrible thinking about the Knicks winning the title, which looks incredibly likely now. To be clear, we will never escape this. I despise Knicks fans, but in a lot of ways because I know the type (they are remarkably similar to Eagles fans). Whatever the version of a group of 3,000 Phillies fans going to Citi Field and chanting “E-A-G-L-E-S” during the 6th inning of the game is for Knicks fans, we’re going to find out. It’s going to be worse than you think.
But I also get to watch everyone who crowned Wemby not only the best player in the NBA, but maybe the greatest player of all time before he had won an MVP, or a title, or even became one of the best 20 offensive players in the NBA, have to take a breather for the next six months. Maybe we should wait to see if someone gets obviously outplayed by Karl-Anthony Towns, gets muscled by Landry Shamet or boxed out by Jose Alvarado even though he’s 8 feet tall before they take the crown of current best player, or all-time best player.
Wemby is clearly a great player, and often times terrifying on defense. He is super tall and remarkably skilled and athletic for his height. But his rush up the ranks and more annoyingly, turning everything he does and says into some urban legend or “we just don’t see this stuff in current athletes now” has been irritating and more notably, just wrong. Players dunk all the time, players react emotionally when they win all the time.
You may say I’m being a contrarian (that is part of my personality, I’m not doing it to annoy you), but I’m also right. Sometimes when everyone thinks something at once, it’s wrong.
Just let him earn it. It won’t kill you.
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