41.   The league also might take in the Tampa Bay Rowdies franchise.

42.   The league takes the game over.

43.   The National Basketball Association is embarking on a new era, and it will be interesting to see what path the league takes.

44.   The league has taken a firm stance on violent incidents that carry into the crowd.

45.   The league has taken major steps to stop fights and then punish those who persist, but this was a classic example of a fight just waiting to happen.

46.   The league might take a hint from the NBA, which will allow zone defense again next season in an attempt to inject imagination into predictable offensive schemes.

47.   This is one of those times when the normally staid league takes on the aura of a latter-day attack-terrier trust-buster.

48.   Under Don Garber, who replaced Doug Logan last summer as commissioner, the league has taken drastic steps to play soccer the way it is elsewhere.

49.   When that happened, the league took a pass, too.

50.   With each sexually explicit piece of testimony on the stand, one wondered how much more embarrassment the Hornets franchise and the league could take.