Eric Walden: Until time travel comes to the NBA, we’ll just have to ‘settle’ for this modern game being the best era of basketball
Six triple-doubles in one night highlight the increasingly apparent notion that we’ve never had more collective basketball talent than we do right now.
Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James smiles during the first half of basketball's NBA All-Star Game in Atlanta, Sunday, March 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Eric is a West Valley City native and a graduate of Granger High School and the University of Utah who joined The Tribune in 2003. He hoards rescue cats and guinea pigs, reads historical fiction, watches British baking shows, and obsesses over 1980s hair-metal bands in his spare time.