SAN FRANCISCO — Basketball loves revisionist history. From softening big, heartbreaking losses in hindsight or myth-making a game where someone was sick and rallied to play into an analogous-but-makes-zero-sense-out-of-context, colloquial short-hand (I’m not saying the Flu Game doesn’t deserve it), the sport’s chroniclers have never struggled to rearrange reality just so for the sake of a story.
All sports get cute with the details, but whether it’s because seasons run into offseasons run back into seasons with no time for a breath, let alone hard reset, or the talent and skill on display growing more pronounced every year, the NBA’s reality runs alongside it’s lore-making and legacy evaluation
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