The boss, a genuine old soul and good man, wanted to know if there was anything to say regarding the Nets. Oh, God. One is reminded of the long-ago, wonderful NBC News Overnight, which ran in the early ’80s. It was an extremely well-written, non-traditional, almost whimsical look at the day’s events, running after the old “Late Night With David Letterman” show, at 1:30 in the morning. Hosted by the great TV veterans Linda Ellerbee and Lloyd Dobyns (who was replaced by Bill Schechner), Overnight was a hit with the college crowd and other folks who were often up at...