It is very rare for me to get excited about the end of a sports season. You have to start mentally preparing for how you will survive the entire offseason, whether that’s three months or eight months, without one of your daily activities.

That feeling hit me once again when the NBA Finals finished up, knowing the most entertaining league in the world would not be playing a game until October. But as many basketball fans know, the NBA’s offseason is not the same.

Caleb Turrentine is a sports writer for Tallapoosa Publishers Inc.