Hillary Cauthen alleging indecent exposure from the since-released Joshua Primo) and any others I may have glossed over. This covers the Boston Celtics (suspended head coach Ime Udoka for an inappropriate workplace relationship with and behavior toward a female employee) the Brooklyn Nets (Kyrie Irving's antisemitic propaganda) the Charlotte Hornets (Miles Bridges pleading no contest to a felony domestic violence charge and the team's recent cringey holiday weekend news dump) the Minnesota Timberwolves (Anthony Edwards being fined $40,000 after making homophobic comments) the New Orleans Pelicans (Jaxson Hayes being sentenced to probation, community service and weekly domestic-violence classes stemming from 2021 charges) the Phoenix Suns (Robert Sarver's reign of racism and misogyny) the San Antonio Spurs (former team psychologist Dr. What follows isn't intended to ignore or marginalize these ultra-serious issues. They are also less debatable, because they're inarguably regrettable-or worse. There are, of course, much more important issues. Instead, I informally polled people who cover and follow every team for thoughts, suggestions and confirmations with one goal in mind: spotlighting moves or overarching themes from 2022 that each franchise should regret entering 2023.Īs a final aside, this recollective will focus solely on basketball matters. These regrets are not meant to depict how every organization actually feels. To that end, if you prodded team executives for their own answers, you'd no doubt get different responses. Some might even need more time to marinate. But many of these more wholesale mistakes and misgivings aren't irreversible. And that's perfectly fine!įor other franchises, well, yes, there will be stronger, louder, more painful pangs of "If only we had a time machine!" and "Oh, crap!" moments. They force us to split hairs and pick nits and obsess over the particulars. Some teams barely have any from which to choose.
Retrospectives are important, because the past can, in fact, be prologue. This exercise will seem unnecessarily pessimistic to some. Welcome to the season of # NoRagrets, a glorious time of year in which we reflect on the past 12 months of the NBA calendar, never once actually lamenting our fandom, interest or the hours upon hours we've spent watching this league, yet dutifully acknowledging that, yeah, things could have always gone better for each and every team.
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