LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The KFC Yum! Center is less than a mile away from the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory, a place where baseball fans can peruse, order and generally worship the wooden tools that the best sluggers master what some contend is the hardest thing to do in sports. Yet as often as not, Mighty Casey isn't at the plate when the game is decided. The best hitter on a baseball team gets a chance only as often as the batting order dictates.
One way or the other, the best player on the court decides almost every basketball game this time of year.