Some games are big, and some are bigger. The Toronto Raptors and the Milwaukee Bucks on a Thursday night, on the flagship TNT broadcast, each with a superstar at the ready and first place in the East hanging in the frozen air? That’s fun.
But it happened as all hell was breaking loose in a league where MVP candidate Anthony Davis had already asked out of New Orleans, and where rising seven-foot-three science project Kristaps Porzingis asked out of the toxic late-capitalism swamp of New York on Thursday afternoon, and was traded to the Dallas Mavericks before he reached his car.