Kevin Durant's answer
Burden? What burden?
Burden? What burden?
The Pistons and Spurs, two title contenders who were awful as recently as two years ago, face off Monday. Is there a recent precedent for a team to make a deep run without any recent playoff series victories?
NBA basketball has returned. Let us dispense with all the nonsense!
It's more complicated than you think.
We have five tiers to sort teams into with a third of the regular season remaining. Who makes the cut as a title contender? What do the playoff and play-in races look like?