The Great Wait: What is an NBA fan to do between August and November?

The off-season has reached its unofficial endpoint. With teams now jockeying for such big name free agent prizes like Earl Boykins; it can safely be said the winners of free agency have already came and conquered.


The winners of losers of the off-season will be covered but that is a task best left to the beginning of training camp. Today it is important to provide our readers with an answer to the question: “what does basketball have left to entertain me with this summer.”

Essentially we are now dealing with the “what if” fantasy rumours that we as a sports community eat up. By conjuring up our own drama we are able to fill the vacuum that August inevitably leaves us with.

However, these rumours often come at a price of integrity to the game. Here are a couple rumours that perhaps come at that price.

The Summer of the Quitter: The NBA’s Spiral Towards Senselessness

So August is drawing to its inevitable close, and for the rest of the world this means gearing up for busy work schedules and last second vacations. For the NBA this means getting acclimated with new team mates and participating in celebrity games that could hardly be considered basketball.

However, this August in particular has also been time for reflection for fans of professional basketball. A reflection upon a free agency period that has been in the making since a secret meeting in a locker room in Beijing when three young men planned the end of pride and loyalty in professional sports.