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America Is No Longer Basketball’s Sole Superpower
The fans who’d gathered at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, to watch the 2015 NBA draft were beside themselves. With the fourth pick in the draft’s first round, the New York Knicks—fresh off a season in which they netted only 17 wins out of 82 …