Fansided

Powerless Rankings for the first week of the NBA season

By Matt Rutkowski

An old ambulance van is seen at a food festival event in Bydgoszcz, Poland on 24 June, 2017. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
An old ambulance van is seen at a food festival event in Bydgoszcz, Poland on 24 June, 2017. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) /
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LOS ANGELES, CA – OCTOBER 08: Trail Blazers (24) Anthony Morrow (SG) drives to the basket against LA Clippers (4) Milos Teodosic (PG) during an NBA preseason game between the Portland Trail Blazers and the Los Angeles Clippers on October 08, 2017 at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, CA. (Photo by Chris Williams/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA – OCTOBER 08: Trail Blazers (24) Anthony Morrow (SG) drives to the basket against LA Clippers (4) Milos Teodosic (PG) during an NBA preseason game between the Portland Trail Blazers and the Los Angeles Clippers on October 08, 2017 at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, CA. (Photo by Chris Williams/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) /

5. Milos Teodosic

It’s Oct. 17, 2017. It’s a beautiful day. Birds are singing. Dogs are bounding carefree in a park somewhere probably. It’s the first day of basketball season, and it’s the best day of the year.

There’s so much hope everywhere. Everyone is 0-0. The Warriors haven’t torn any souls out of anyone’s throats yet. That team, your team can do anything. Your stars have lost 20 pounds or put on 15 pounds of muscle.

You’re ready to lock in and watch them do their thing, and then…

…oh no…

He’s down. He’s holding his leg. It doesn’t look like he’s getting up. The grimace isn’t receding. This is bad.

For so many people this past week, that was their team’s story. We were powerless to stop it; we just watched with our heads hanging low. Star after star went down, and not in the good way the song “Get Down On It”” by Kool and the Gang beckons you to.

When Milos Teodosic went down against the Suns, it all started to make sense. There’s an angry injury-dictator-god-king pointing and saying “Now you. Kneel.” It’s plantar fascism, and we have no choice but to obey.

From the beginning of the season until now, it’s been one “out indefinitely” after another. Milos Teodosic was going to bring fun with him in the absence of Chris Paul. Now that fun is relegated to the bench and Blake Griffin is going to have to be primary fun creator. He can do it, but I just wish he had help.

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