So! Awesome news, NBA fans! According to reports on Twitter, the executive director of the National Basketball Players Association has said: “We’ve advised (players) they may have to sit out half the season before we get a deal.” Cool. We were not looking to repeat the absolute magic that was the NBA 2010-11 season. Definitely wanted to put that in a time capsule and marinate on it for a while.

Well, if you’re looking for a balm to soothe you, we can offer you this music video from rapper O’Grime (you’ve no doubt knocked his “Illuminati Swag” all summer). It’s a tribute to Lithuanian rookie Jonas Valanciunas.

Between this and YouTube videos of Kevin Durant dropping 3s on dudes at pickup games and the possibilities of a horror-comedy (horredy?) screenplay coming out of Adam Morrison’s move to Serbia, maybe we’ll all get through this together.

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