Getty Images/AP Images/Ringer illustration Sample sizes be damned. From the Bucks being screwed to Jayson Tatum winning MVP, here are some way-too-early takes from the 2024-25 NBA season. The first week of every NBA season is a perfect time to feast on overreactions and hyperbole. If there's any more appropriate way to enjoy this annual tradition, please don't tell me what it is. Tempered analysis will have its day, but after watching almost every team play at least one game, here are some observations (big and small) that may or may not look ridiculous a couple months from now. 1. Jayson Tatum will win MVP. His season opener was one of the most dominant and efficient individual performances of his (or anyone's) career: 37 points on 18 shots, 10 assists (plus three hockey assists), and only one turnover. He hit eight 3-pointers. His PER was 53.1 (lol). The Celtics' offensive rating with him on the court was 172.9, and 93.8 in the 18 minutes he sat. That includes an entire fourth quarter of garbage time that saw Boston miss a million shots in a row as it tried to break the single-game 3-point record, but the defending champs reached another level of pure unstoppability during...