Back in April, I pontificated on this moment in basketball history constituting the "Golden Age" of point guards in the NBA.
Nine months later, not much seems to have changed—not on the surface, anyway.
Derrick Rose and Rajon Rondo are (still) out with knee injuries. Kyrie Irving might be sidelined by one of his own, per The Associated Press (via ESPN.com), mere days after Russell Westbrook went back under the knife for the third time since the spring. Steve Nash has been a question mark for so long that Los Angeles Lakers fans seem to have all but forgotten that he's still under contract with the Purple and Gold.
I could go on and on, but I'm not here to rehash the same exercise from last season.
Rather, with so many youngsters working their way up the ranks—and even more on the way, with Oklahoma State star Marcus Smart and Australian stud Dante Exum expected to enter the 2014 NBA draft—now seems as good a time as any to look closer at those floor generals who either have jumped or seem likely to jump to the next level at their position and to highlight where in the hierarchy they now find t ...
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The NBA’s ‘Golden Age’ of Point Guards Is Only Getting Brighter
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