“My dearest Dr. Smith,
As a fellow scholar of the olden NBA days, you were the first person I thought to contact when I made my most recent discovery. While not necessarily ground-breaking, my newest findings regarding the 2015-2016 NBA season, now almost a century behind us, are nonetheless intriguing, and perhaps will even rewrite the chapters previously written on the matter.
I will not bore you with additional bloviations and instead get right to the meat of the subject: around mid-March of the Earth Year 2016, the NBA entered what could be termed the “Marvin Williams Era.” As I’m sure you’re aware, being a learned man of NBA history, Marvin Williams was considered a bust, or at the very least, a disappointment, by all the great NBA thinkers of the time. However, during this short period, encompassing no more than two weeks, Marvin Williams became the featured offensive threat of the Charlotte Hornets franchise (relocated to Mars in the year 2097). The potential that Marvin apparently possessed was unleashed for a short duration, and he was among the best players in the NBA.
This short-lived era did not effect the final standings of the season very much, other than placing the Hornets at a higher playoff seeding. The era had ended by the time the playoffs had begun. But regular-season achievements should not be dismissed, as they so often are in the modern NBA research climate.
I will soon correspond with you again regarding the “JaMychal Green Era,” which occurred almost contemporaneously with the Marvin Williams Era. You will be delighted to know that I discovered video clips of both eras among the disordered archives of an internet website known as “YouTube” – I will share these with you over the holotransmitter when I next get the chance. The man known as “DownToBuck” deserved more attention than he received, that much is certain.
Sincerely,
-Dr. Hyperionium Adam Silver IV”