It’s been a bit of an anniversary celebration here at Stratechery HQ: it was just under a year ago that I had my first bout of COVID, which left me locked up in a Taiwanese quarantine facility for 18 days. Stuck with nothing to do on the weekends in particular I decided to watch the
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A year to the day earlier, New York had opened its heart to Julius Randle for the first time. Oh, he couldn’t hear any of it, of course: Madison Square Garden was still bereft of customers, and the atmosphere was downright depressing. Empty gyms are fine when you’re on the make on the AAU circuit.