Look: For the record, I am NOT going to urge Adam Silver to commit fraud next Tuesday night in Chicago, when the NBA conducts its draft lottery.
(Not in so many words, anyway.)
That would be hard to justify. That would be a hard thing for a conscience to live with, especially one that endured 16 years of Catholic school — even if, by suggesting fraud, and by the NBA commissioner agreeing to commit fraud, it might well lead to the pages of this newspaper actually being filled, some May soon, with playoff basketball stories instead of updates about Jason Vargas’ hamstring and Clint Frazier’s ankle.