would face this winter, when medical experts were rightly predicting an alarming spike in Covid-19 cases. It was thus so tempting, starting Friday night, to get swept up in the basketball as the preseason began. Golden State’s Stephen Curry returned from his own injury woes with a new trick shot that he flung from the empty stands at Chase Center during pregame warm-ups and that may have topped every past trick shot in a career full of them. Zion Williamson, too, was back to his wrecking-ball best Monday night in the New Orleans Pelicans’ exhibition opener. Thursday’s Minnesota at Dallas preseason game is the first I will have the chance to attend in person.

Source: New York Times December 16, 2020 21:33 UTC