Weekend dime-dropping ...
So much happened off the court during the NBA's first few days of real games in three months that This Week In Basketball (this week, anyway) had to take the form of a detailed roundup of the chaos
My regular Friday column, which we published at lunchtime on a Saturday for the first time, is named This Week In Basketball in tribute to the old “This Week in Baseball” shows that I lived for as a kid once they debuted in 1977.
Regular readers (🙏) know by now that these pieces are intended to be around-the-league, Sunday-newspaper-style notebooks fill…