SI.com · Jul 5, 2021
The Finals Are Mind-boggling. And Awesome
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The NBA Finals open Tuesday night, in a city long forsaken by the Basketball Gods, with two franchises long ignored by the basketball public—one led by a perpetually undersold star, the other by a confounding two-time MVP, and every piece of this still boggles the mind in strange and delightful ways.