Being a beneficent fellow, I declare this Benefit of the Doubt Sunday.

So let’s say that Adam Silver was blindsided by this; he had no idea that the NBA’s Hawks had declared March 16 a “cultural” salute game to an “iconic” strip joint in Atlanta, replete with a vulgar, N-word chanting rapper and the sale of strip-club hoodies to commemorate the game and celebration. 

OK, so let’s say he missed it. 

But given more than a week to pull the plug on this malodorous idea — which would leave the NBA and the Hawks in disrepute, and relegate Silver to the legions of leaders without civilized conditions — the league has done nothing.