PICK ’ N ’ HIGH SCHOOL ROLL

The ho-hum playoffs didn’t provide much excitement, but the NBA made up for it with an offseason straight out of Mean Girls. It had everything: competing cliques, passiveaggressive Instagramming and baking-related disses. So before we tip off the 2017–18 season, let us appreciate one last time the Summer of Subtweeting

STEVE RUSHIN

IF “ HOLLYWOOD is high school with money,” in the famous assertion of actor Martin Mull, then the NBA is even-higher school:highschoolwith height (and, of course,money).Everyone’s too tall to be stuffed in a locker, the couture backpacks are too tiny to hold books, and the hair buns aren’t just for the lunch ladies. But the league is still unmistakably high school, with its cliques, feuds and frenemies, all of it amplified on Instagram. And so the student body returns this month to what we might call, with apologies to the Ramones, Pick-and-Roll High School. The kids can look back on a long Summer of Subtweeting, of public passive-aggression on social media, of epic breakups and intensifying BFFs. The NBA offseason is now nearly as entertaining as the NBA onseason. Anyone in…

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Sports Illustrated (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 16, 2017

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