A look around the league and the Web that covers it. It's also important to note that the rotation order and starting nods aren't always listed in order of importance. That's for you, dear reader, to figure out.
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C: The New York Times. A great look by Charly Wilder at Diana Taurasi's life in Russia, why she's choosing to stay there rather than come back to the U.S. to play for the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury this season, and what she gains and loses by making a choice that few (if any) NBA stars would ever face.
PF: Hang Time. John Schuhmann's updated strength-of-schedule rankings suggest that we shouldn't write the Cleveland Cavaliers into the No. 2 seed in ink, and that the races for the No. 8 seed in the West and the final two playoff spots in the East figure to keep being very tightly contested.
SF: DraftExpress. Jonathan Givony and Matt Kamalsky identify the pro prospects worth keeping an eye on in each and every opening-round matchups in this week's NCAA tournament.
SG: The Triangle. We welcome back proud papa Zach Lowe to the fold by suggesting that you drink deeply of his list of the NBA players he's most enjoyed watching this season.
PG: Bleacher Report. Ethan Skolnick revisits the injury-plagued and lost 1996-97 season that brought Tim Duncan to the San Antonio Spurs.
6th: NBA.com. David Aldridge's characteristically jam-packed Morning Tip leads with a look beyond the initial fallout from the NBPA's rejection of the NBA's "cap smoothing" plan to phase in revenues from the league's massive new TV deal. While most of us have looked at what a spike in revenues will mean for the summer of 2016, there's also plenty to consider when it come to the possibility of another spike in 2017 and a subsequent drop in the cap line come 2018.
7th: 8 Points, 9 Seconds. The Indiana Pacers have been playing some of the best ball in the league over the past month and a half, but there's one big problem Frank Vogel and company must address if Indy's to play spoiler come the postseason: how to get something, anything, out of Solomon Hill on the offensive end.
8th: Sports Illustrated. Rob Mahoney on how Serge Ibaka's absence wrecks the Oklahoma City Thunder's balance on both ends of the floor.
9th: GQ. Bethlehem Shoals on how frustrating it is that, with injury after injury, "we never get a chance to see just how good this [Thunder] team can be."
10th: Posting and Toasting. A bit late getting to this, but Matt Miranda has a sound (if perhaps a bit more hopeful than I'd be) review of Phil Jackson's first full year running the New York Knicks: "You can't label surgery a failure because the opening incision caused some bleeding, anymore than you can label it a success while the patient's still on the operating table."
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