Well, that probably had to happen at some point.

The vibes were too high. Simply too high, you know? It didn’t seem possible for the Spurs to lose, or for Wembanyama to play poorly, or for everyone on the team to just… not really show up. But it happened. It was a bad one from start to finish. A full-on stinker. The basketball equivalent of watching the coolest guy you know walk straight into a mailbox. I had a bad time watching it, and I bet you did too.

So where do we go from here? What’s the takeaway? Mostly that this team is still an unfinished product, and this game underlined it in thick red ink. It’s better, closer, and warmer to being a finished product than it has been in a long time, but it’s still working things out. That’s probably okay. I mean, it’s definitely okay. It’s jus

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