What has happened is that an icky brand of toothpaste has been let out of the tube, never to return whence it cometh. Whatever it was, it was telling, and, sadly, it was justified. Tyson Chandler is coming. Eddie Curry is coming. Three or more of their fellow high school crop will also be coming.
Some disclosure is necessary here.
The NBA drove whatever writing career I have. They regard the NBA as the Evil Empire of basketball. I do not. I firmlly believe that if the clock could be turned to 1968, and if Spencer Haywood has never existed, the NBA general managers, personnel directors and coaches would be thrilled. I firmly believe that the NBA has been forced into the basketball world it now inhabits by the courts and by sheer expedience.