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: Sports Illustrated. Ron Mahoney on the early returns for the Phoenix Suns' high-octane trio of Goran Dragic, Eric Bledsoe and Isaiah Thomas.
PF: Green Street. Our own Ben Rohrbach on the troika of perimeter-defending pit bulls — Rajon Rondo, Avery Bradley and rookie Marcus Smart — who got the Boston Celtics back in Monday's matchup with the Dallas Mavericks.
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SF: RealGM. Jonathan Tjarks decides to set aside Joe Johnson's contract, which has been a bit of NBA horror so long it might as well be the monster at the end of Rust Cohle's beer-can-man story, and just look at the player himself. What he finds is a still-impactful Hall of Famer.
SG: Blog-a-Bull. Like our Kelly Dwyer, Ricky O'Donnell's a little bit skeptical of the Chicago Bulls' intentions after they chose not to lock up shooting guard Jimmy Butler before last Friday's extension deadline.
PG: SLAM. Rick Telander celebrates Walt "Clyde" Frazier, which works just fine for me, thanks.
7th: BBall Breakdown. He is, at best, the fourth big on the Los Angeles Clippers, but Ekpe Udoh could wind up being a critical piece of Doc Rivers' puzzle before too long, writes Mark Deeks.
8th: The Triangle. Danny Chau on the "complete on-court personality shift" that Perry Jones III has undergone for the Oklahoma City Thunder, simply because, well, somebody's had to.
9th: The Triangle. Chau's fellow Grantlander, Zach Lowe, thinks it's too early to dismiss OKC entirely.
10th: Nylon Calculus. A few days late on this, but Seth Partnow looked at shot-location/accuracy statistics made available through the NBA's SportVU player tracking cameras and found something interesting about why players might make corner 3-pointers at a higher clip than above-the-break 3s … and it's not just that it's a shorter shot.
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