Kieran Shannon: NBA playoffs herald changing of the guard

It hasn’t been lost on America or the world that in recent years that for a good while there the future of the NBA appeared to be international.

Anthony Edwards #5 of the Minnesota Timberwolves celebrates after defeating the Denver Nuggets in Game 7 of the Western Conference Second Round Playoffs. (Photo by C. Morgan Engel/Getty Images)

Making our way to the Bruce Springsteen concert in Croker was to be reminded how there can’t be a more glorious sport or competition in the world than hurling and its Munster championship and nothing quite as huge or as over-hyped as the Premier League.

Driving into Dublin county, we’d John Mullane and Anthony Daly blasting off the T-top – after they’d blown off the roof of the Cusack Park commentary box, we suspect; after such a match it’d be fair to surmise that not only does John still love his county and Dalo and Clare love their hurling too but between them they’d have any listener loving it as well.