NBA's 'L2M' referee report does more harm than good

You're going to find this hard to believe, I know. But somehow, they played professional basketball games before the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017. Somehow, the NBA had become a genuine global phenomenon in the 69 years before that night, when the NBA's 70th season began with the defending-champion Warriors dropping a 122-121 nail-biter to the Rockets in Oakland, and the defending runner-up Cavaliers squeaking past old fried Kyrie Irving and the Celtics, 102-99, in Cleveland. Maybe you were otherwise occupied that night, so you missed the revolution. The Yankees were playing the Astros in Game 4 of the 2017 ALCS that night, after all, and it was a rollicking celebration at Yankee Stadium,