Basketball On The Internet.

GET this. Apparently, according to the media, there was a "fiery aftermath" to Game 1 of the NBL Championship in Sydney on Saturday night, TV talking head Derek Rucker even describing it as "... we've got chaos in front of us." Chaos? Really? Because Nick Rakocevic refuses to shake Andrew Bogut's hand?

Wow-wee. Stop the presses!

Maybe we should insist on a Coronial Inquiry?

A Royal Commission?

Holy Mother of Naismith, how desperate has the media become when it describes the fact one guy doesn't want to shake another guy's hand as a "fiery aftermath"?

Or as "chaos"?

You want a fiery aftermath? You want chaos? Pull up the footage of the Boomers-Philippines brawl from Manila a few years ago, where someone is ultimately coward-punching Nathan Sobey before some other fool is trying to crush Chris Goulding's larynx with a chair. 

But please, stop short of such emotive nonsense just because one guy decides not to leave it on the court and avoids a handshake.

We've even had a lengthy piece about this frightening threat to western society on a sport website, endeavouring to connect Rakocevic's action to some alleged past issue between Bogut and Dejan Vasiljevic.

Projecting much?

Here we have as fact, Kendric Davis leaving Adelaide after last season due to several issues, not the least was his lack of faith in 36ers coach Mike Wells.

He joins Sydney to be coached by the NBL's coaching GOAT Brian Goorjian, mentored by NBA champion Matthew Dellavedova (Cleveland Cavaliers) and to be around an NBA first round No.1 draft pick and champion in Bogut (Golden State Warriors).

Meanwhile, after not responding well to a Perth Wildcats ultimatum - and nor should he have - Bryce Cotton joins Adelaide.

Bryce then beats Kendric to the MVP and the latter lets his disappointment become public record.

There is also the fact Vasiljevic won two championships at Sydney and Isaac Humphries also played for the club back in the Andrew Gaze coaching era.

Is that insufficient grist for the media mill? Plenty there to work with, I'd have thought.

Wasn't it enough of a non-event a week or two ago when the great Tim Soares-Jo Lual-Acuil non-handshake shook the league to its very core? What a confrontation THAT was going to be, commentators left and right slobbering over its possibilities. Except it was the confrontation that wasn't.

There is plenty going on in this Championship Series. Why the media still feels it needs to piss on our legs and pretend it's raining is beyond baffling, or necessary.