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.
That launched the start of the Heatles, as some called the super band of basketeers that Miami's Pat Riley put together consisting of James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and whoever else could roughly fit within the salary cap.
King James and company won two titles in four years - San Antonio fans are right to argue that it should have been one, given the five-point lead the Spurs owned with 28 seconds to go in what would have been the world-championship-clinching Game 6 of the 2013 playoffs before they collapsed and lost in overtime, but it is what it is.
Point is, even as strong as those Heat teams were - and there hadn't been that much star power in one place since the old Traveling Wilburys supergroup lineup of George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne - they weren't invincible.
And neither will be the Warriors.
Their two issues? Sharing the wealth and maintaining their health.
The former, which some would describe as chemistry, takes time. The nucleus that has been the Warriors - two-time league MVP Curry, deep shooter extraordinaire Klay Thompson and glue guy Draymond Green - didn't win 73 regular-season games the first year they were together, and the 2016-17 Dubs might not, either.
Good as this all looks on paper and close as this group already is off the court - especially Durant, Curry and Andre Iguodala, but more on that in a minute - Curry, Durant, Green and Thompson have yet to play together. And at least Curry and Durant are both used to having the ball when it matters most, though Durant probably didn't get it as often as he wanted it in Oklahoma City due to the outrageously gifted but confounding point guard Russell Westbrook.
So how will he adjust to getting it less with the Warriors? If Durant started out 0-5 with the Thunder, he was encouraged to keep shooting. If he starts a game 0-5 with the Dubs, would that even be sound strategy? If you can turn to Curry, Thompson and Green, should you even risk 0-6?
There's also the matter of depth. Because of the money needed to keep the Fab Four happy, there won't be as much of that in Golden State as in past seasons, especially in the post, since the Warriors will be waving bye-bye to center Andrew Bogut, backup center and former Vanderbilt star Festus Ezeli and wing Harrison Barnes.
Yes, the "small ball" format has been good to Golden State overall, but there certainly were times in both the Western Conference finals against OKC and in the Finals against the Cavs when the Warriors' inability to control the glass hurt tremendously.
As Detroit Pistons All-Star center Andre Drummond tweeted on Monday: "Everyone is so hyped up on the matchup problems on the offensive end? They still gotta come down the other end. Not a very big team."
But they will be an undeniably gifted one on offense if they can all remain healthy and in the NBA's good graces. After all, the Warriors probably would be the two-time defending champs today if Draymond "The Nutcracker" Green's questionable use of hands (and feet against OKC) hadn't gotten him suspended for Game 5 of the Finals with Golden State up 3-1 in the series.
Yet as cold-blooded a marriage as this might appear to be to the rest of the league, it might surprise some that the Warriors made this happen more because of brotherhood than basketball. For it seems that during the 2010 FIBA World Championships in Turkey, Curry, Durant and Iguodala became close friends, a trio of basketball junkies who returned to the gym late at night to work on their shots rather than hit the bars and discos.
According to Iguodala in an ESPN article, "Us three were always together. We had chapels together before every game, so we definitely got to know each other."
Now it's the rest of the NBA that will be praying for a blueprint to beat basketball's Fab Four. Or at least hold the Warriors under 200 points a game.
Contact Mark Wiedmer at mwiedmer@timesfreepress.com.