Written by Chris Hatch at NoCoastBias.com
The past few games of the NBA Finals have seen the Cleveland Cavaliers getting roundly curb-stomped by the Golden State Warriors.
You probably already know this, as the Warriors have exploded to a 3-0 lead and look for all the world like they’re unstoppable.
Among the many victims of this frenetic, Michael-Bay-Movie-pace of a basketball series was one Tristan Trevor James Thompson. Here’s his stat line from the past few games:
Obviously, that’s not great.
And, when viewed through the prism of Thompson’s gargantuan $15,330,000 per year salary, and the fact that he was such a difference maker on the offensive glass and as a defender in last year’s finals: there’s no way you can rationalize his poor performance thus far.
He has been out rebounded by Stephen Curry. That stat alone should shock the basketball world.
While Thompson has never been a particularly flashy, stat-box-filler, this slow start — along with the Cavaliers’ massive struggles on the defensive end in particular — have put Cleveland directly behind the proverbial 8-ball. Of cocaine. That’s probably being snorted by Dan Gilbert and his frat-boy homies while cruising around on his private jet.
But this collapse by Thompson in particular, who at 25 years of age is hardly the aging vet that some of the Cavs bench players are, and who is a crucial piece of Cleveland’s LeJigsaw Puzzle was a stunning turn of events.
It begs the question: what happened between last year and this year that would be a momentous enough shift as to derail what appeared to be a career on the up-swing?
What force could snuff out the light of one of Cleveland’s post-season torches from a mere 365 days ago?
The Kardashian Curse. A well-documented, popular theory that explains a lot about what’s happening to Cleveland this NBA Finals. The ties run deep, the proof is supernatural, and the curse is real.
But what are the origins of the Kardashian curse? How did it begin?
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