So in the end, the CELTICS came to the BATTLE OF THE HAMPTONS armed with the GQOAT, the THUNDER rode in with a franchise that KEVIN DURANT could pretty much call his own, and the WARRIORS arrived on horseback with, what, DRAYMOND GREEN and LIL B THE BASEDGOD? Yup, and that's what you call serious long game: a year's worth of back-channel recruiting by the guy who's going to play beside DURANT in the league's most lethal frontcourt (possible subtext: DURANT is significantly less likely to be kicked in the family jewels from now on), and the acquisition of the magical power required to lift a longstanding curse. The battle (and perhaps the NBA itself) now over, people had lots of thoughts on a monumental MONDAY on everything from how to beat the league's new supersuperpower to how to go on living in a DURANT-less OKLAHOMA CITY, and we collect them in our REDEF SportsSET "THE DECISION (KEVIN DURANT REMIX)"... Quite a few other basketball players made unbelievable amounts of money over the long weekend, and it's totally OK... The biggest problem with the ASSOCIATED PRESS using computer algorithms to cover minor league baseball games isn't that it will cost human jobs (the AP says it won't but the AP is lying to itself) or that computers can't write (they can totally "write" in the same sense that that dude in MICROSOFT tech support can totally "solve" my latest issue with OUTLOOK). The problem is that it propagates the worst kind of sportswriting, the kind that can tell you exactly what the box score already told you but can't tell a story or communicate an emotion or smell the grass or notice the 17 things that didn't make it into the box score because there's no column in the box score for "seriously? He threw that pitch on that count???"... Weekend winners: Kingslayer SAM QUERREY. Bride-to-be DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA. Been-there-and-back swimmer MICHAEL PHELPS. High-school graduate VASHTI CUNNINGHAM. Mass-quantities consumer JOEY CHESTNUT... Weekend farewells: ICELAND.