Gordon Monson: Coronavirus is the NBA king this season. Deal with it, and hope and work for its defeat next time around.

They say optimists live longer than pessimists, and, right now, especially under these strange virus-era conditions, that’s what we all want to do — live longer.We want Mom to live longer, and Dad, Grandma and Grandpa, brother and sister, wife and husband, daughters and sons. Everybody, live longer.Pessimism, though, has its place.When it comes to the NBA season and edging forward to an oh-so eagerly restart it in the name of normalcy, for the good of a nation’s psyche, lifting