'Hidden Figures,' a Rubik's Cube and a champagne t...
Key takeaways
- NEW YORK -- These days there are endless You Tube videos that will show you how to solve a Rubik's Cube.
- Erno Rubik, the Hungarian architect who invented the puzzle, took a month to solve his own creation the first time.
- "Not only was it a Rubik's Cube," Engelbert told ESPN in an extended interview this week, "but a lot of these issues were smaller in the context of the bigger issues, but important in the context of the whole package."
Why this matters: a sports story that could shift standings, legacies, or fan conversations.
NEW YORK -- These days there are endless You Tube videos that will show you how to solve a Rubik's Cube. The key is memorizing a handful of basic sequences and then just following a layer-by-layer method. Done correctly, it looks surprisingly easy -- like some sort of magic trick. But complicated problems always look easy in hindsight, once they've been solved. All the frustration and self-doubt and angst felt while working through it fades into memory.
Erno Rubik, the Hungarian architect who invented the puzzle, took a month to solve his own creation the first time.
After 17 months of public squabbling -- from "Pay Us What You Owe Us" T-shirts at the All-Star Game to superstar Napheesa Collier going scorched earth on commissioner Cathy Engelbert -- two dozen or so lawyers, staffers and players spent eight marathon days in March solving the WNBA's version of a seemingly unsolvable problem by hammering out the 50 or so issues that divided them to reach what both sides regard as a landmark collective bargaining agreement.