Welcome to The Outlet Pass, a weekly roundup of observations, questions, and predictions from Michael Pina's NBA notebook.
1. An Ode to Two Non-All-Star All-Stars
This is an excuse to highlight a special pair that was not invited to Los Angeles, but are invaluable to teams that couldn’t legitimately contend for a championship without them.
The first is Chris Paul, who, well, the Houston Rockets have won 85.7 percent of the games he’s appeared in. Paul is far and away their second-best...