“Due to unforeseen circumstances the game has been postponed.” - That was the line from the PA announcer at Chesapeake Energy Arena, roughly half an hour after the Oklahoma City Thunder were supposed to have tipped off against the Utah Jazz.
The Brooklyn Nets began this strange old season in a strange new transition, caught between the positive battler team-culture vibes of their recent past and the all-in superstar vibes of their future.
See, all it took was a bit of rest. No sooner had Steven Adams come back from eight days off during the All Star break, apparently largely spent training his new dog, than he’d ripped back into it for the Thunder at the level we’d been hoping to see from him all season.