The NBA was a league in transition last season. Apparently, NBC wasn’t paying attention.

On Opening Night this October, the NBA’s new broadcast partner is giving us… well, the same thing we got the last time we invited the peacock into our home to watch some basketball: the Olympics. We get Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry and LeBron James. Only a year older.

If only NBC could have thrown in the Celtics, just so seeing Jayson Tatum on the bench could complete the Paris grand slam.

I get it. You have to show the defending champ’s ring ceremony, and throwing in Durant’s first game as a Rocket adds a second attractive element to the season’s curtain-raiser between Houston and Oklahoma City.

And Curry vs. James just doesn’t get old, even if they will be meeting for the 56th time. Seriously, the

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