The first week of the 2013-14 NBA season featured a boatload of surprises. The Philadelphia 76ers notched wins over the Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls, Andrew Bynum played in a professional basketball game for the first time in about 1,000 years (give or take) and New York Knicks fans booed Andrea Bargnani from the moment he took the floor.
Well, that last one wasn't all that surprising. But you get the idea: Unforeseeable stuff dominated the league's opening week.
Chief among those unanticipated results were a trio of shocking individual performances. Rookie Michael Carter-Williams burst onto the scene with one of the most impressive NBA debuts in history, DeMarcus Cousins sent an early message that he was ready to justify his max deal and DeMar DeRozan looked suspiciously like the Toronto Raptors' best player.
But as we all know, one week does not a season make. Disappointment is looming in the distance for all three of those guys, and here's why:
MCW as Icarus
It didn't take long for NBA fans to see the first stunner of the 2013-14 campaign. On just the second day of the regular se ...
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