I have very few rules in life, but one of them is that whenever I get a hole-in-one the day before, I take a trip around the NBA to write about things I find fascinating. (Fact-check: The hole-in-one was at a par 3 course, so I am not sure it really counts. But a golfer with my limited skills has to take ‘em however they happen. 100 yards out, two bounces, in.)
Almost as odd as my hole-in-one is the Eastern Conference standings in my Sunday morning LA Times. Did anyone else notice that almost half of the teams have exactly 17 losses?