John Wall knew he was following protocol. What he was doing came from pragmatic decision-making based in thoughts about his future. It’s his seventh season in the NBA, but he is still just 26 years old, a three-time All-Star who has at least one huge contract to come in his career, if not two.
So, he sat on the bench in Orlando in another one of his highly-stylized getups, this one a shirt buttoned to the top framed by blue plaid sport coat that would make a golfer blush. Wall was sitting out the second of back-to-back games for the first time this season.