DECEMBER EDITION

BY: EVAN WATKINS

Greetings, heroes!  Once again, it’s time for another month’s worth of 7 NBA shower thoughts.  I could regale y’all with some mild takes and vapid analysis about what I think about the league.  But, I’ve found a scourge on our favorite sport that ruins all the fun.  What scourge, you may ask, am I possibly suggesting is ruining the game of basketball?  Officials, of course!  Night after night, year after year, these so-called “professionals” continue to go out there and do a shoddy job of enforcing the rules the NBA set forth.  So, rather than come up with some possibly genuine analysis that goes further than skin-deep, which may or may not involve the favorite team of you, dear reader, I’ll take December’s column to focus on something that impacts us all.  How do we improve the officiating of professional basketball?  I have some ideas.  (Take some of the more ridiculous suggestions with a heaping grain of salt.)

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