A guest column from Romy Nehme.
Oh, happy day! NBA fans had been pathetically hungering for any morsel of NBA protein for weeks now during the desert days of summer NBA coverage. Last week, the deliverance came in the form of real NBA news; news about players’ reformed waistlines, twin hairdos, Marvel superhero-worthy summer regimens and the kind of unbridled optimism that makes your spine tingle.
With the glare of my Mac screen shining the only wattage in my living room, I spent late Friday night rifling through every one of the Celtics press conference videos for hidden tarot meanings that might have eluded one of the the 100 fans who had contributed a YouTube view.