The NBA season is a marathon.
It's an 82-game season and with players resting throughout the year and only a handful of teams realistically having a shot at the title, it's easy to become indifferent to the minutiae of it all — though not here at Silver Screen and Roll where we love this stuff.
You often hear phrases like "just one of 82" or "just another game.” Those cliches have a subcontext that, at the end of the day, these games all matter equally. Some games, however, even the coolest NBA stars acknowledge holding some weight to it.