NEW YORK -- Better to be a wise ass than a dumb ass, that's my policy. Magic Johnson takes the opposite approach.

Like the NBA and its high profile alumni (Latrell Sprewell, Alvin Robertson and J.R. Rider) doesn't exhibit enough black eyes. Like the league doesn't have enough cynicism and distrust swirling around it!

Well, thanks to the mortally misguided Magic, it is now troubled by another "eddy."