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As you sit in one NBA arena or another, or in front of your League Pass, the scores that flash before your eyes on any given night can be horrifying. And that's just the scores; some of the actual play is even worse than statistics suggest.
Welcome to Lockout Ball, an unnecessary phenomenon born out of a marriage of stubborn, short-sighted hijinks among men in suits. They spent months staring at each other across various conference room tables, ignored various pleas to just compromise already and wound up with the same deal on Nov. 26 that could've been reached Oct. 4.
Or, dare I say, Sept. 27, when this clever suggestion was registered and ignored.
The result is a harried, 66-game schedule with ...
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