While the bored are perhaps lucky to be bored, considering how much worse circumstances can get at this current time, their boredom is real, felt deeply and probably not going away anytime soon. That’s not to say the basketball ops world is glib or dismissive about the threat of pandemic. It’s just that these staffers have grown so used to jobs that require perpetual motion that the league’s paralysis seems so acute. Those who simultaneously live in the parallel worlds of NBA, NCAA, G League and international leagues are the kind of people who like information inundation. They’re not geared for waiting around and poring over the past. Yet, now that it’s all ground to a halt, all that’s left on new prospects is old film. “If the Synergy servers crash, we are fucked,” quipped one basketball operations worker, referring to the scouting video service.