"An average NBA season is filled with some 1,300 games, 230,000 shot attempts and countless transactions and quotes and storylines. It's impossible to keep track of them all in the present, and inevitable that many will fade from memory. But a small selection of those games, shots and storylines become part of the NBA's narrative. I wasn't yet born in 1992, but as a sports fan, my first thought when I see that number is of the Dream Team."
"Several years ago, baseball analyst Sam Miller wrote for ESPN about "the single memory that defines each baseball season." Today we're going to borrow Sam's idea to ask the question: What moment from each basketball season will fans be most likely to learn about and remember in the future? Or, as Sam put it, what's "the one thing a fairly serious [basketball] fan has probably heard of from that year"?"
An average NBA season includes roughly 1,300 games, 230,000 shot attempts and countless transactions, quotes and storylines. Only a small selection of games, shots and storylines become part of the NBA's enduring narrative. Certain years become shorthand for iconic moments, such as 1992 for the Dream Team, 1970 for Willis Reed's Game 7 return and 2013 for Ray Allen's late three. The idea of selecting a single defining memory for each season is borrowed from a baseball concept about a "single memory that defines each season." Determining what will be remembered and what won't is often unpredictable.
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