Swordplay

This is to announce that, the day after the Pistons demolished the Sixers in their spirited home-opener, looking more lithe and fluid and relaxed under Flip, and still "playing the right way," McClintic and Benny P will square off in a duel of sorts, modeled after the early 1800s duel of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. At stake will be not only the supremacy of a basketball city, which seems to be already decided, but also wealth, power, and general monstrosity. The only thing that may save us now is a dancing robot, of sorts. And, the plural possessive, which conveys, however crudely, that this stuff is all of ours together.