As the NBA playoffs churn on, officials’ burden of truth gets heavier Globe_Sports
Somewhere in the midst of this are the officials who took a bold stand against innovation. Per custom, they haven’t come out to explain themselves.
We’ll have to wait for Tuesday’s Game 2 to see if anyone has decided to amend their positions – either Harden by altering his shot, the Warriors by choosing to retreat from it or the officials in opting to call it as a foul. Then we can argue again about rightness, wrongness and the essential poverty of all human knowledge when measured against the infinite.The argument itself is insoluble. It’s the mystery that allures.
Is it a good thing to force a discourse about one of the game’s fundamental principles during one of its most fraught moments? No, it’s the best thing. Like Harden’s tweak, it’s another work of genius, one of the marketing variety. It’s difficult for sports – something the faithful have seen performed a thousand times in familiar patterns – to re-engage its adherents in a thoughtful way about anything. But that should be the goal.
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