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SHORT CIRCUIT

If you’ve been injecting NBA propaganda into your eyes and ears for the last few months (which I have, because it makes me feel good), you’ve probably heard the League’s newest, most escape room-like catchphrase:

The NBA is now a year-round league.

This is, for the most part, very true. The NBA Draft came exactly seven days after the Raptors clinched the NBA Finals. The Anthony Davis trade came somewhere

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