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Dan Woike: Plus-ones are all the rage

LOS ANGELES - The way the NBA's summer went, the 2019-20 season looked like it would play out almost biblically.

Two by two, they'll march toward the end goal. In Los Angeles, there will be the one-browed big man and the King in one Staples Center locker room and a pair of rangy two-way wings in the other. In Houston, it'll be the patient scorer with an offensive arsenal as full as his beard with the pedal-to-the-floor triple-double machine. Eventually in Brooklyn, the enigmatic guard and the tweet-at-his-haters forward will set upon their quest.

And with it, a new era in the NBA will be ushered in with pairs of stars leading their teams with the time of "super teams" and "Big 3s" shoved into the NBA's storage locker.

Gone is Boston with Paul Pierce, Ray

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