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.
C: San Antonio Express-News. Via Dan McCarney, after Wednesday's blowout win over the Houston Rockets, Tony Parker succinctly and remarkably explains in one quote how and why the San Antonio Spurs have been, and continue to be, the Spurs for all these years.
PF: Project Spurs. The Spurs have been decimating all comers (well, nearly all, anyway) over the past couple of months, thanks in part to the job they've done of holding down the opposition's top scorers, like they did to Houston Rockets MVP candidate James Harden on Wednesday night.
SF: USA TODAY Sports. Sam Amick talks to Andrew Bogut about his often-overlooked role in transforming the Golden State Warriors from go-go also-rans to hard-nosed contenders.
SG: The New York Times Magazine. Michael Sokolove goes long on the Philadelphia 76ers' rebuilding project and how it hinges, to some degree, on what head coach Brett Brown calls his own naiveté.
PG: Vantage Sports. Bryan Toporek goes deep inside the numbers to consider which defensive-minded big man would make the best building block for a team — the Sixers' Nerlens Noel or Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz.
6th: BrewHoop. The good news: Michael Carter-Williams is taking better shots since joining the Milwaukee Bucks. The bad news: He's not shooting any better. Dan Sinclar takes a look at the offensive struggles of the former Rookie of the Year, and whether it's likely that things will get better.
7th: Blog-a-Bull. Chris Terzic with a cold cup of coffee on Joakim Noah, who just might not be what he used to be.
8th: FOX Sports. Michael Pina makes the Rookie of the Year case for Elfrid Payton, the fantastic Orlando Magic rookie point guard who can do everything ... except this one glaringly obvious thing. (As a sidebar, here's Evan Dunlap at Orlando Pinstriped Post on the strides Payton has made in curbing his turnovers as his freshman year has progressed.)
9th: ESPN.com. David Thorpe explains why Andrew Wiggins' post-rookie-season summer workouts ought to include an awful lot of studying James Harden's game tape.
10th: The Nation. Dave Zirin puts the arrest of two Atlanta Hawks for allegedly resisting arrest and the subsequent season-ending leg injury sustained by Thabo Sefolosha in the process into broader societal context: "Let’s not 'bury the lead' here. At a moment when people across the country are reckoning with the deadly reality of police violence and the terror it imposes on black communities, the New York Police Department fractured the leg of a player in the National Basketball Association."
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