SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Divorce stories these actuality-disfigured days normally generate a heated rush of page-turning; they're as monotonous as the bores getting unshackled.

Leave it to a pair of dreadfully imaginative, privileged point guards to reverse that tendency and appropriate our unadulterated attention.

Within the last week, we've been alternately taken aback, titillated and turned off by Steve Nash's startling divorce announcement the day after his wife gave birth to their third child and first son (earthquakes have more tender timing), and Tony Parker's code of misconduct involving the exiting wife of a former teammate.