NBA notes as lottery looms

As the league prepares to descend en masse upon Chicago for a week's worth of predraft festivities, let's set the stage with some TWIB notes

After I faced a few more curveballs than preferred this week, I am trying to make up for lost time the only way I know how.

With words.

So I have assembled this remodeled version of my usual This Week In Basketball column — rest assured it still features plenty of the usual around-the-league goodness — to go with a separate imminent column devoted to th…