Varys: I brought this team back together for the good of one more run. I cheered for this team. I believed in this team. And I will do it again.
Baelish: One more run? Do you know what one more run is?
It's all the calls Tommy Heinsohn thinks are bogus. It's Greg Stiemsma blocking shots like Bill Russell. It's Rondo being the best point guard in the league. It's Pierce and Garnett being the nucleus of a championship team that can beat the Miami Heat.
A story we agree to tell each other over and over until we forget that it's a lie.
Varys: What do we have left once we abandon the lie and blow it up? The lottery? Chaos. A gaping pit waiting to swallow us all. We'll become like the Bobcats and we'll never get out.
Baelish: Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder.
Many who try to climb it fail, and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. Their organizations are mismanaged. They make awful draft picks, or hire David Kahn to be their GM. Their owners are meddling, or distracted, or broke.
Some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to an old or flawed core, or nostalgia, or faith that they will be saved by free agents. Illusions.
Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is. The lottery is the only way to get back to the top.
* Sorry, I just loved this little scene from the last GoT episode (don't worry, this doesn't have any spoilers!) and I was thinking about it today and realized it had some parallels to some discussions going on around here *
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