We’ve Arrived At The “Nitpicking The Officiating” Portion Of The Finals (opens in new tab)

Nobody wants to think about officiating, much less talk about it. Joyce Carol Oates . The NBA Finals are no occasion for rational nonpartisanship. The middle ground is out of reach. If I want to say something straightforwardly true about the officiating, like, "Referees are still sorting out how to protect Victor Wembanyama from a kind of mauling that only he faces," unless I surround the statement in 1,000 caveats so that the eventual sum of what I have said is, "Victor Wembanyama should be ...