Ten things I like and don't like, starting with the All-Star draft

And now for a special Thursday edition of 10 Things:

1. The All-Star draft, in jeopardy

As Rachel Nichols reported, the NBA has no plans to televise the ballyhooed All-Star draft or even release the draft order.

This is dumb. Look: I get the fretting from players, the league office, and the players' union. Being publicly ranked is uncomfortable. No one wants to be last pick, even from a player pool that represents the best 5 percent of the world's best basketball league.

But the NBA announced a bold move to juice up a dead exhibition, and they basked in the tittering buzz that followed. Would players feel obligated to pick their teammates? How aggressively would Klay Thompson guard Stephen…