Brown and Tatum, Giannis, Doncic and Jokic, Edwards and Gilgeous-Alexander, Wembanyama. Yes, ok, new events are ready to take over the NBA. However, the recent story of Team USA’s victory in the Olympics tells another truth. And that’s why American basketball still depends on terrible old people…
The next generation is the NBA, right? This is what the last playoffs said, which consecrated Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum as champions in Boston and the talented excitement of Anthony Edwards who took Minnesota to the top and joined Shai Gilgeous-Alexander in an elite group which already includes known talents and loved ones. like Luka Doncic, Nikola Jokic and Giannis Antetokounmpo, both phenomena on the pitch and allergic to the limelight. The entire NBA world is looking forward to Victor Wembanyama’s second season, after flashes of absolute dominance in his first season in San Antonio. The Draft did not bring any events, but for years the NBA seems ready to say goodbye to its events of the 1910s and fully embrace those of the 1920s, with the 2024 playoffs seeming to provide the final push. Then the Olympics came, the gold came to Team USA and the absolute protagonists of this exciting victory were those terrible over 35 years old that the NBA will never let go of: LeBron James, Steph Curry and Kevin Durant. And then the doubt arose that the generational change with which the NBA has been flirting for so long still has to wait.