If you’re not thinking big anymore, you’re just a defeatist. Or a Negative Nancy. Or just stuck in the Isiah Thomas/Stephon Marbury/Phil Jackson eras.
And that’s understandable. I get it. It’s been a long time. Too long.
But even for those pessimists, it must’ve been impossible to watch Friday night’s utter annihilation of the Celtics and not think about the Larry O’Brien trophy.
It is, gasp, realistic. Really.
