Restraint of Trades

Speaking of "egregious basic structural failings," here's a question: now that Kevin McHale's favor to Danny Ainge last summer has led the Celtics to the most dramatic single-season turnaround in professional basketball history, can we get some, like, Congressional hearings on the pervasive anticompetitive conduct that plagues the NBA (see also the Knicks' deliberately running their franchise into the ground by keeping Isaiah Thomas on the payroll long after it was clear that, he, too was acting in only the Celtics' best interest)? Or is it just the sports/war-on-drugs combo that inspires Henry Waxman to conduct House investigations? Talk about the corporatization of the American legal system: for whatever reason, collusion among General Managers just doesn't seem to raise hackles like needles in buttocks these days. . .