Coming Back To Basketball

 If I am being honest I am not a loyal NBA or basketball as a whole watcher. I was a nuggets fan growing up with my first in person NBA game being a Nuggets game with Carmelo Anthony and Allen Iverson playing together.

   I eventually just became a Russell Westbrook fan in 2015 and watched his, KD and the OKC Thunder make a run in the playoffs and go up 3-1 on the 73-9 golden state warriors, you probably know the rest and long story short I was heartbroken, KD leaving OKC was truly my first heartbreak.

   After Russel Westbrook's historic 2016-17 season and after watching him win MVP, I caught myself slowly start watching and after KD won his ring I stopped watching all together, I checked up every now and then and was definitely a hate watcher for the Golden State Warriors and fully stopped checking in on the NBA after the Toronto Raptors won the finals in 2019. 

   I eventually came back to support the Nuggets again in 2023 when they had their finals run, that might make me a bandwagon and that’s fine I love the Nuggets. I still was off and on for the next two years and really came back for the 2025-26 season and made it a goal to attend every playoff home game for the nuggets which I did and loved all of the energy and playoff atmosphere and it was painful to see them go out that way when I and so many others had so much hope for them. 

   I may be delusional but I do have hope for them next season, either way I’m excited to see how this offseason unfolds and I can’t wait for October for opening night.

   This is my first time writing something like this and this is my first ever post on this website, I hope that it makes sense even just a little bit. 

   ~ Adam