INGLEWOOD – We all have that friend who’s convinced that every airball, every blown call, every boneheaded turnover is evidence that the fix is in.

Maybe it’s you, maybe you’re that friend?

And I’m the one who’s been over here laughing at you, calling you a conspiracy nut. I’m the one rebutting, trying to tell you that mistakes happen by the hundreds in a human game like hoops – which will always be true, but also … I see now what you’ve been saying.

This week jogged my memory – oh yeah, NBC’s Bob Costas totally grilled late commissioner David Stern on air before the 1993 NBA Finals about the latest round of stories about Michael Jordan’s gambling – and so it’s suddenly hard not to unsee things that might or might not be there.

We all absorbed Thursday’s news that Portland Trail Blaz

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