Thursday morning, the NBA’s worst came to light. There’s no spinning that a player of note and an acting NBA head coach landing federal indictments in a betting probe is bad news.

It is, in fact, the kind of crisis that can send an entire league into a tailspin.

So maybe it was fitting —a karmic counterbalance — that mere hours later, the absolute best of the NBA was right there for the world to see, front and center at Chase Center.

That Warriors-Nuggets game is why we still tune in. That contest is why we still love this game.

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