Liverpool^[1] came into the season as slight Premier League^[2] favorites, but it's hard to remember a preseason favorite surrounded by so many question marks.

There was the tragic death of Diogo Jota^[3] -- a not-to-be-quantified loss that affected and is still...

ONE AFTERNOON THIS past summer in Sombor, Serbia, Nikola Jokić^[1] sat in an auto body shop and watched his friend Nemanja Pavkov work. They've been buddies forever, but this was the first time Jokić paid attention to how his friend makes a living....