data-mm-id=”_3dsyn1wxw”>Skepticism is growing around the idea that the NBA will be playing any more meaningful basketball games this year. They are trying to keep the league in the front of people's minds with video game tournaments and H-O-R-S-E competitions. And that's all well and good. But if the NBA really wanted to create a buzz for the future, they'd look to the past. Way back into the past, to 1891, when Dr. James Naismith dreamed up this crazy sport. Tell me you wouldn't be interested in watching a bunch of players — ideally the ones who have successfully beaten coronavirus off already — get together and put on some long pants with belts and play an exhibition under the original rules with peach baskets. Those rules, originally published in the January 15…