The shape of things to come

The NBA's spike in late-season injuries isn't recency bias, it's routine.

Recency is up there with narrative as one of basketball’s bad words. Recency bias, mostly, but also taking things to be true and solid based on a promising stretch of play, somebody’s spoken intentions, a team that has no business playing so well excelling — the list for what counts as things not to count, long and loaded. To believe in their veracity l…