Hopefully, the selection by the 76ers of Jerry Colangelo, a basketball purist, will be the beginning of the end of the analytic revolution that has taken pro basketball by the throat in recent years.
Finally … the fans, the press and the ownership, in particular, may be tiring of the lack of urgency. The “be patient” admonitions, the “we are building for the future” and “we are getting better” pablum may slowly begin disappearing from the NBA dialogues.

I mean, whatever happened to a simple little slogan like “win –and now”?****