The NBA knows how to punish spectacle. Systems are harder | Lee Escobedo

The NBA knows how to punish spectacle. Systems are harder | Lee Escobedo

The GuardianTuesday 10 March 2026🇺🇸 United States
The NBA knows how to punish spectacle. Systems are harder | Lee Escobedo

When Ja Morant brandished a gun on social media the league knew how to act. But what happens when complex questions about team ownership arise? Lately, I’ve been thinking about the job I had two decades ago, when I was a janitor at a machine shop in Fort Worth, Texas. Even as a hungover 20-year-old, my internal monologue would debate the ethics of the parts I packaged. We produced tiny components for Halliburton and Lockheed Martin. Slivers of aluminum machined to tolerances so fine you could mi

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