What was it that Bowie Kuhn called it? Ah, yes, “the best interests of baseball.”

The NBA has a nice thing going these days. Pace of play is up. The referees are starting to swallow their whistles. The Thunder are providing a once-in-a-lifetime treat. Even the return of LeBron James is being applauded.

OK, mostly.

And the fans are loving it. TV ratings have never been better and more good games are getting onto the airwaves, even if November is setting a record for most forgotten obscure-streaming-platform passwords.

Yet the league has a BIG problem, one you don’t see on TV because that’s how the NBA shields its ugliness from the masses.

The Grizzlies, Pelicans and Mavericks are embarrassments.

We’re just not talking basketball here. We’re talking about teams spiraling into dark hol

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