"There was a distinct, almost electric dissonance humming through the Chase Center on Tuesday night. If you looked at the box score in a vacuumstripped of time, score, and realityyou saw a revelation. Jonathan Kuminga, the man exiled to the end of the bench for more than a month, erupted. Twenty-one points in 20 minutes. Seven-of-10 shooting. An athletic marvel finally unleashed. It was objectively impressive."
"For those who didn't spend their college years wearing turtlenecks and reading French philosophy, let's simplify post-modernism. In the simplest terms, it's a rejection of the grand narrative. It's skepticism about the existence of a single truth. In art, it's when the style becomes more important than the substance. In basketball? It's what happens when the scoreboard stops being the point of the exercise. It's when the truth winning the game is replaced by the vibe highlight reels."
"Kuminga didn't even score in his initial playing time, a second-quarter stint. And when the Warriors turned to him halfway through the third, the game was already an autopsy. He finally got on the board with an alley-oop dunk. That dunk cut the Raptors' lead to 91-66. But the crowd ate it up like it was a Steph Curry 3-pointer in a playoff game."
Jonathan Kuminga scored 21 points in 20 minutes on seven-of-10 shooting after more than a month on the bench. The Warriors trailed badly, with Toronto leading by as many as 30 points, so the competitive stakes were essentially gone. The performance felt like performance art, emphasizing highlight plays and crowd reaction over winning. Post-modernism was used as a metaphor: a rejection of a single grand narrative and a prioritization of style over substance. ESPN analytics showed a 99.3 percent Toronto win probability when Kuminga scored his first point. Fans treated highlight moments like marquee playoff plays.
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