Amid the Giannis Antetokounmpo drama, can Minnesota, Oklahoma City and Indiana sustain success around their superstars?

The lunch invitation came one summer day in the 1990s, after one of the overblown, false-alarm flirtations between Louisville and folks trying to secure a National Basketball franchise.

Team owner Paul Gaston approached Bird, who had long retired as a player but remained a living symbol of Celtics pride, and ...