However spectacular the fireworks you may have seen or heard on the Fourth of July, they almost assuredly paled in comparison to those lit by NBA superstar Kevin Durant and the Golden State Warriors.
Durant a Warrior? Really? So now the last two men to be voted the regular-season MVP – Durant and Stephen Curry – are on the same team?
Can anyone say loaded? Stacked? Patently unfair? Has any team in NBA history gone 82-0 in the regular season and 16-0 in the playoffs?
Or as the Washington Wizards’ Marcin Gortat tweeted upon hearing the news: “Thats crazy!!!! KD in GSW????. R they gonna score 200 points a game?”
It’s certainly fair to say that within the pro basketball community there hasn’t been this much excitement, concern and outright dread in some corners – right, Cleveland? – since the Cavaliers’ LeBron James briefly exited that northern Ohio city for South Beach back in the summer of 2010.