NEW YORK — About 36 hours after I submitted my ballot for All-Star starters last week, I was walking across that obnoxious for-display-only basketball court in the middle of the Indianapolis airport terminal, resisting the urge to challenge TSA officers to a pickup run.
The entire premise of planting a life-sized court in a busy public space but banning it from use is silly (even if it’s impossible to ignore as a marketing stunt for this year’s All-Star Game in Indy). But if I were to pull a basketball out of my suitcase and Euro step around some fellow travelers, I have a feeling security would treat it as a deathly serious offense.