In its simplest interpretation, the 1st Law of Thermodynamics states that “Matter can be neither created nor destroyed. It can only change forms.”, which is all well and good when it comes to physicists and the pondering of the eternal and universal but is considerably less helpful when applied to the far more urgent concerns of an NBA audience.
There aren’t many hard-and-fast laws in the world of sports. There are aphorisms and axioms aplenty [‘Live by the 3, die by the 3.’, ‘The run opens up the pass.’, ‘It’s hard to win when you lose the turnover battle.