See What Others Got

A few things we’ve noticed watching real rosters come through. The 2001-02 Kings keep getting earned by wildly different tastes, from moody soul-and-rap combinations to full pop-trap crossovers, because that team was both the prettiest passing offense of its era and one with genuine star swagger. The 2017-18 76ers (“Trust the Process” in real life) have shown up more than once for late-night, unfinished- sounding R&B lists, which tracks: that roster was a slow-building bet on the future, the same story a lot of not-there-yet taste tells. And the original Bad Boy Pistons keep landing for combinations that share no obvious lane, punk next to hip-hop bravado, because “built on repetition and toughness” turns out to describe more than one kind of persistence.