For you, dear reader, we will trudge forward. And I was hoping you would fall for it.Ĭlick here to read the The Ringer’s 2023-24 NBA rankings.īut, fine.
I kind of wanted to try it out in an FAQ, just to see what it’d feel like. Sorry, that was reflexive-“I don’t know” is an incredibly efficient conversation ender that, for a weasel like me, feels undervalued in modern dialectics, especially for topics that absolutely do not matter. You don’t know? Way to invalidate this entire FAQ right from the jump, buddy. With the festivities all set to begin, let’s answer some pressing questions about the tournament. It’s not the players pulling the heist it’s the league. Perhaps through the prism of Imperioli’s slick, typecast presence, the NBA is being honest with itself. “To really practice Buddhism, in my point of view, it really requires real honesty with yourself,” Imperoli recently said on a podcast for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. But the NBA revels in its self-awareness these days-Draymond Green is “a vet who isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty” Kawhi Leonard is the “inside man who is everywhere and nowhere.” It has nothing to hide, and everything to gain. In another era, perhaps the mysterious gambler image that Imperioli evokes in “The Heist” would have cut too close to home.
