Hey, look! Something important!

We will leave off the usual stuff about the NBA Finals today (LeBron! Steph! Other guys who've never been in the Finals before, unless you count the last four years!),  and there are several good reasons why we will do that:

1. It's LeBron and Steph and other guys who've never been in the Finals before, unless you count the last four years.

2. In other words, it's the same old stuff for the fourth straight year.

3. And besides, the real story -- the story of the year, if it goes a certain way -- is happening in the only Final that really matters.

4. Which is the Stanley Cup Final.

Where, unlike the NBA's Johnny One-Note storyline, we've got two fresh storylines. There are the Alexander Ovechkin Capitals finally making the Cup Final after years of playoff heartbreak. And there are the Las Vegas Golden Knights -- currently up 1-0 in the series -- who, if they win the Cup, will be do something that's never been done in the history of not just the NHL, but the other three major sports as well.

They'll become the first expansion team ever to win a championship in an established league in its inaugural season.

(And, yes, Cleveland Browns fans, the Blob realizes they won the NFL title in their inaugural season. But given that they had already been around for four seasons, and had won four championships in another pro league before it folded, it's hardly the same thing.)

As for the Golden Knights, it was enormous enough that the Golden Knights even got to the Stanley Cup Final, after so many knowledgeable hockey people looked at their roster last fall and concluded they were going to be very bad, and perhaps historically bad. But if they win the Cup?

Sports story of the year. Nothing that can possibly happen from now until December that would come close to matching it.

Meanwhile, everyone is still talking about the NBA Finals, even though it's the same storyline it always is, or at least has been the last four years. Seriously, what new is there to say about Cavs vs.Warriors?

And what new isn't there to say about Capitals-vs.-Golden Knights? Especially if the latter wins?

Time to start paying more attention to the latter, and much less to the former.