Team loyalty isn’t necessarily as strong in the NBA where a player can look at the other guards in the East and won’t be like “I’m voting for Kyrie or DeMar, love those guys” instead of voting for their teammate. It’s an interesting point but there’s a lot of noise here given all the cross team friendships and reputational effects.

You can’t blame him in the same way you can’t blame Trubisky for being picked 2nd overall in 2017. The Bears keep putting the wrong person in franchise critical spots.

Russ’s laugh though 🥹

And the three losses were all winnable one score games. They’re fine.