The NBA Finals are about to tip off north of the border — a genuinely competitive Finals for the first time in a couple of years — and yet the shadow of drama in Los Angeles still hangs over the NBA. The Lakers dysfunction dominated the NBA landscape Tuesday, from the story about how Magic Johnson ran the Lakers through fear and intimidation, with Magic denying those charges, with a sidebar of GM Rob Pelinka just making up stories about Kobe Bryant meeting Heath Ledger. When Adam Silver was on ESPN's "Get Up" Wednesday morning, he did what you'd expect — he backed the owner.