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.