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The best-case scenario is that the U.S. maintains close ties with other democracies — Europe, Japan, Canada — while gradually reducing its exposure to China and other authoritarian regimes.

Kuzma calls the car’s sale “the absolute best-case scenario considering what happened,” and said he and his brother plan to go see the car once it’s on display.

This, for the Lakers, was a possible worst-case scenario on a night when they could lock up their best-case scenario for the playoffs.

“That was best-case scenario,” manager Dave Roberts said of the diagnosis, raising the likelihood of Snell’s hope to be back on the mound in a couple of weeks.

Obviously the best-case scenario would have been a full public inquiry.