3s Wilt today’s NBA game

IN AN exchange with reader Steve DeCillis about the 3-point shot having turned NBA games into heave ’n’ hope sideshows, we reached this junction: Would Wilt Chamberlain today even be relevant or just another stand-around guy? DeCillis: “Would Wilt shoot 3s underhanded?”

➤ The pride of Connecticut stomps on: As seen but not heard — never! — on SNY, Wednesday, Geno “The Impaler” Auriemma’s women needlessly humiliated St. John’s, 77-32. Two UConn starters played 34 or more minutes. UConn subs? One played four minutes, another for two.

➤ Nothing like raucous laughter over the antics of drunks who aren’t funny. I agree with the daughter of the designer of the NFL’s Super Bowl champs’ Vince Lombardi Trophy: The yacht-tossing of the trophy as entrusted to an apparently inebriated Tom Brady was disrespectful and childish.

➤ College basketball continues to destroy itself from the inside out. Sunday on ESPN2, the last 12 seconds of overtime in Loyola-Chicago at Drake included three timeouts plus five other clock stops. Twelve seconds, eight stops!

➤ Unaccomplished 6-foot-9 Duke freshman Jalen Johnson is bolting for the NBA after less that one season. When will all the hollow, habitual praise for Mike Krzyzewski as extra special be replaced by reality? Duke is the latest Kentucky.

➤ Due to revisionist social justice pressures, Roger Goodell’s alma mater, Washington & Jefferson, this week will be renamed “&.”