This past weekend, an article entitled Loving the NBA, Warts and All appeared on ESPN.com, written by Chuck Klosterman, who says that despite what the league office may try to tell us, he knows the NBA will forever be flawed.

The piece begins like this:

Basketball season hasn’t even started, and the NBA is already in trouble. You know this. Everyone knows this. Everyone knows this because this is always true. The NBA is always in trouble.

You don’t have to read the whole thing to pretty much agree with Klosterman’s opening, although I definitely do not love the NBA, warts and all. I do think it’s a good, well written article.

But it made me wonder whether adding Black Fives to this picture could make a difference somehow.

Do you think NBA players and league executives could gain anything of value by embracing the history, lessons, and experiences of the Black Fives Era? If so, what?

Photo: NBA commissioner David Stern.

Excerpt and photo courtesy of ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com.