Oh, no! Controversy!

 Full disclosure time this morning, because everyone should know the Blob's biases, and  can then better judge how disdainful they should be of its takes.

("Pretty disdainful, generally," you're saying now)

Anyway ... here's the deal: The Blob does not do video games.

This is not just because the last video game at which the Blob was remotely competent was Pit Stop, a racing game that was popular back in, I don't know, the 1880s or something. Everything since is a mystery. My son might know the difference between "Assassin's Creed: The Crimean Years" and "Madden 1954," but I don't.

And so it's with more than a little amusement, and whole lot of eye-rolling, that it observes the "controversy" among NBA players over ... a video game.

It seems more than one has an issue with the way they're rated by video game publisher 2K Sports in this year's NBA game, NBA 2K22. No, really.

Kevin Durant, for instance?

Well, he's kinda miffed, and LeBron James is kinda miffed on his behalf, because he thinks his rating should be a 99 instead of a 96 (whatever that means).

Meanwhile, LeBron also scoffs at Steph Curry's rating of 96. And Trae Young wonders how he can be just an 89.

The Blob's take on this, of course, can likely be guessed.

"It's just a stupid video game," is the gist.

But the athletic stratosphere is a curious place, occupied as it is by sometimes delusional egos. This should not be surprising; any athlete who rises to the level of a KD or LeBron there because he or she possesses the arrogance of supreme confidence. Some are just better at hiding the arrogance than others.

So, yeah, they waste oxygen on the silliest things. Because they wouldn't be who they are if they didn't.

Still ...

Still, it's just a stupid video game.

So you'll forgive my laughter.