David Stassen might have been cosmically intended to work on Running Point. The co-showrunner, who produces and writes the basketball comedy with longtime collaborators Ike Barinholtz and Mindy Kaling, explains as much in front of a prominently placed box of Wheaties on his bookcase during a February Zoom. “I’m a huge Chicago basketball fan,” says Stassen, who grew in the city with Barinholtz. “That is the 1991 Bulls — original and unopened.”
The mummified “Breakfast…