
It will be a minor miracle if, come October, the NBA ends up crowning a champion whom history will regard with enough legitimacy to grant it a place among its all-time greats. Look at the caseloads, at the curves, at the probabilities of infection and the realities of human nature, and it becomes awfully difficult to spot the lonely, little trajectory the league has charted with its plan for three months of bubble-wrapped basketball on Mickey Island. Make a list of all of the things that can possibly go wrong, and you’ll see just how precarious each new day of competition will be. It is the pr…
