But if the Warriors' excellence bends the old logic of basketball, Westbrook's rips it up and throws it away.
Morey, 35, is not in fact an android seeking to reduce basketball to stats and logic, although his manner of speaking might sometimes suggest it.
"The logic was that basketball will be stronger with football schools like Syracuse, Louisville, West Virginia and Pitt, which all had strong basketball programs and formed a strong football program," said John J. DeGioia, the president of Georgetown, one of the defecting universities known as the Catholic 7.
Over the years, the court refused to extend that tortured logic to theatrical productions, basketball, boxing and football.
He played basketball and football and found Kleis, a logic and philosophy professor, in the classroom.
In an essay about Carmelo Anthony, the star is described as "a gigantic basketball nerd" who "works through possessions like logic puzzles".
So to show just how flawed its logic was, here are five legendary, dynastic basketball teams that weren't accused of "killing" the game.
The same logic, however, would cause us to abandon the NCAA basketball tourney, because it ends with 64 of 65 teams losing their last game.
ELLEN: Seeing your girl playing basketball has compelled me to scroll wistfully back to where our journey began, in the search of some semblance of logic that might explain how far we've strayed.
It doesn't take a tremendous leap in logic to wonder how one individual found guilty of sexual harassment could earn a second chance running a basketball franchise (a women's team, at that).
