Key Highlights
- The question is whether an American can still carry the crownThat the NBA is reckoned in seasons is apt.
- To measure a legacy this way is as much existential as it is symbolic.
- Martin Heidegger argued that time is not something we pass through, but the condition of our being – less a pathway than a pressure.
- Heavy stuff, yes, but the NBA has always operated under similar weight. The millennial superstars who stabilized the league for two decades are now entering their twilight: LeBron James (who turned 41 on Tuesday), Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, James Harden and Chris Paul.
- In their wake comes something genuinely new.
