There’s no Nets connection, Biggie or Smalls

PANDERING continues to destroy both common sense and common decency.

Last week, the NBA fined the Warriors’ An

dre Iguodala $10,000 for “making inappropriate comments.”

Two days earlier, the Nets honored Biggie

Smalls on the pathetic premise that the “Notorious B.I.G.” was born in Brooklyn and it was the 20th anniversary of his drive-by murder — Smalls among the first in a relentless scroll of shot-dead rappers. Obviously, then, NBA commissioner Adam Silver and Nets CEO Brett Yormark would be willing to declare that Biggie’s N-wording, vulgar, boastful, women-degrading, beef-escalating, violence-promising, guntoting, relentlessly antisocial lyrics, messages and lifestyle are “appropriate”?

What Biggie Smalls, arrested seven times — drugs, assault, weapons — and incarcerated for nine months, has to do with the Nets, specifically, and the NBA, at large, is, well, you tell me.

Still, Yormark and the Nets apparently couldn’t find anyone else born in Brooklyn — an educator, war hero, physician, nurse — more worthy to honor.

At halftime, with Biggie looking down from the overhead screen wearing a menacing scowl as if he hated ev- eryone’s guts and was prepared to act on his stare, the Nets raised a banner to the roof, one that will honor Biggie — for what? — in perpetuity.

“That banner? Oh, that’s for Biggie, son.”

“When did he play for the Nets?”

“He didn’t. He was a rapper who was murdered in a drive-by. He helped return the N-word, threatened people with violence, and used very bad language, especially to sexually denigrate young women.” “So why the banner?” “He was born in Brooklyn.” “So were you, Dad.” There’s big league precedent. The Mets honored oft-arrested — drugs, guns, assault — rapper 50 Cent because he was born in Queens.

And the NBA last week fined a player for “inappropriate comments.” Clearly, the NBA, knows what’s inappropriate when it hears it.