Seven years ago, during the strange, almost hallucinatory run that made him famous, Lin was in a similar situation. On Wednesday, in the NBA finals, Lin dribbled and dribbled as time wound down. But they do obscure sometimes how random so much of sport can be, how much of it for the individual athletes, can rely on chance and strange turns. Three months ago, Andrew Bogut was putting up 11 points a game for the Sydney Kings in Australia’s National Basketball League. And for the past three years, ever since the Warriors signed Durant, the NBA playoffs have been pretty tension-free.

Source: National Post June 07, 2019 00:22 UTC