That time of year

It's Drama Season in the NBA, that time of year when Lillian (that hussy!) gets caught cheating on Colin, who's in a coma after a mysterious car accident everyone thinks was orchestrated by his ne'er-do-well stepbrother Jeremy, who's miffed that Daddy cut him out of his will and thinks Colin had something to do with it.

In others words ... let's go to Cleveland, where the Cavaliers are sinking like a chunk of granite and all mad and stuff at Kevin Love for calling in sick in their time of need.

And let's go to Portland, where Damian Lillard met with Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen, wondering what the heck is up with this franchise, anyway.

And let's go to Washington, where J.J. Barea of the Dallas Mavericks says nobody likes Wizards star  John Wall. And to various places around the league, where everyone's griping about the refs and wondering why the officiating has to be this bad.

What in the name of The Young and The Restless is going on here?

The Blob has a theory.

Like most of its theories, it's probably completely ridiculous. But the Blob is going to advance it anyway.

What's going on here?

It's simple. Just look at the calendar.

By which I mean, it's late January, dead center in the doldrums of the endless NBA season. It's three months since the beginning of the season, long enough that the players feel as if they've been playing forever. And it's still three months until the playoffs, when all of this actually starts to matter.

That's so far off that not only can the NBA's weary legions not see the light at the end of the tunnel, they're starting to suspect there is no end to the tunnel. That's especially true for those teams who've already realized that the bright hopes of October were fool's gold. And yet they've still got three months to slog through before they can go home at the end of another losing season.

And you wonder why everyone's suddenly crabby and out of sorts?

Look. The Blob gets it. The NBA season lasts longer than the Hundred Years War, yet it's not going to get any shorter. Lopping about 20 games off it would both improve the product and likely cut down on the bitching and moaning, but it's not going to happen. Way too much lost revenue involved.

So, The Young and The Restless it is. Deal with it.

After all, by late March, with the playoffs in sight at last, all of this will have subsided.

OK. So most of it, then.