Opinion: The NBA is mishandling the winter of omicron and turning its product into a joke
At the beginning of the second quarter Monday night, the Atlanta Hawks subbed Lance Stephenson, who before this month hadn’t played in the NBA since 2019, into the game for Chaundee Brown. For the 17,049 fans in attendance at State Farm Arena, it would have been perfectly reasonable to ask who that is, given that Brown had only signed with the team hours earlier.