"Do me a favor. Wake me when the next – no, make that, first - top NBA star reaches the TSA security checkpoint at your nearest airport on the way out of the country to play ball overseas.

Until then, I'm sleeping on the chatter from some marquee players suggesting they'll take their talents through customs. Not only is this literally foreign territory for our domestic best, it's also an internationally flawed concept.

Basketball Without Borders is one thing, indeed a fine global NBA outreach program.

But NBA brethren dealing with lockout boredom is something completely different. "