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By Howard Beck The NBA standings are closer than we’ve ever seen, with a glut of teams hovering around .500. Is this the new normal? In Adam Silver’s fever dream, the NBA is a wondrous world of wish fulfillment, a hooper’s utopia where everyone has an equal chance for success, a personal pathway to basketball nirvana. Or, as Silver often said in 2011—when the NBA was wrangling with its players over a new labor deal—he envisioned a “system where all 30 teams could compete for a championship and create hope in every one of their communities.” Depending on one’s vantage point, that mantra sounded…
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