Chris Paul is gone.
D-Wade is gone.
Duncan is gone.
Shaq is gone.
Dirk is gone.
KG is gone.
AI is gone.
Melo is gone.
Pierce is gone.
Rondo is gone.
Nash is gone.
Bosh is gone.
Ray is gone.
Yao is gone.
T-Mac is gone.
Linsanity is gone.
Scalabrine is gone.
Your childhood is over.
No one really warns you about this part of adulthood where you start to feel homesick, not for a house, but for a moment in time. A version of life that doesn’t exist anymore. A place you can’t return to, and a feeling you didn’t know you’d miss so much until it was gone.