The good news for Los Angeles Lakers fans is the NBA preseason starts on October 3rd, 2019, which leads us to open night on October 22nd.
The bad news is that the calendar hasn’t passed Labor Day yet. What this means is that the media can find the smallest quote and turn it into a frenzy.
This was plainly illustrated by David Griffin’s quotes combining LeBron James and misery a few weeks back. The NBA media is desperate for a story and finally dug deep into the archives of 15 years ago to do it.