In the days of horse-drawn carriages, horses’ hooves often DASHED mud onto passengers in wet weather.
To block the mud, people installed wooden BOARDS up front.
They called them ‘dashboards.’
Idaho adopted no-excuse mail-in voting in 1972. Washington did it in 1974. California in 1978. Iowa in 1990. Arizona, Wyoming and Vermont in 1991. Nebraska in 1997. Oregon in 1998. Wisconsin and Florida did it in 2001. NC in 2002. Ohio in 2005. Georgia, Illinois, and NJ in 2006.
That game is a reminder of just how compelling the NBA can still be at its best. Watched it all at a packed bar in SF -- with people who weren't invested in either team -- living and dying on every possession.
The regular season needs a lot of work. The playoffs remain awesome.
Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.