NBA Media Day is the unofficial start to the NBA season, and in a lot of ways it’s like the first day of school.
You’ve got your new kids, like Damian Lillard, popping up with their new teams. And your returning stalwarts, like Giannis Antentokounmpo, holding court in front of reporters. Meanwhile, the media, serving as the teachers in this tortured metaphor, are quizzing everyone about their summer reading, trying to get a take on the season to come.
And oftentimes, the answers we get are anything but straightforward.
So we turned to our friend and NBA Insider Ramona Shelburne, to help us read between the lines and decode the most intriguing comments we heard on Media Day. Did the Celtics actually land on the winning side of the Bucks’ Damian Lillard trade? What is James Harden’s next move in Philly? Is this LeBron James’ last ride? And what on earth is going on with emo-Jimmy Butler?
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