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: ESPN Insider ($). Kevin Pelton and Amin Elhassan look at why Kevin Love hasn't been anything like the hand-in-glove fit that many of us expected him to be with the Cleveland Cavaliers, and what tactical changes David Blatt might implement to get the All-Star power forward on track. (Over at BBallBreakdown, Seth Partnow has some other ideas for getting Love unstuck.)
PF: Eye on Basketball. Zach Harper with a good breakdown of what's fueling Andrew Wiggins' strong play and markedly improved scoring of late.
SF: Blog-a-Bull. After a red-hot start to the season for the Chicago Bulls, Jimmy Butler has fallen to Earth a bit of late, and Jason Patt sees the absence of injured wing Mike Dunleavy Jr. as a pretty big reason why.
SG: SB Nation. A good read from Mirin Fader on Gordon Hayward doing his level best to live up to his much-derided max contract and develop into the sort of leader that Quin Snyder's Utah Jazz so desperately needs.
PG: Truth About It. With the Washington Wizards holding down the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference and the Brooklyn Nets in the midst of trying to shed high-priced talent and possibly find new ownership, Kyle Weidie catches up with a fan who decided to break up with the Wizards in favor of rooting for the Nets back in 2012. A fun Q+A.
6th: Bloomberg View. Kavitha A. Davidson on reports that a number of former athletes — Hank Aaron, Dikembe Mutombo, Dominique Wilkins, Chris Webber, Grant Hill and Junior Bridgeman, and possibly others — are intereted in buying into the 100-percent-for-sale Atlanta Hawks: "The reality is that if we want more black representation and former players among NBA ownership, they’re likely going to have to be part of a consortium."
7th: Bloomberg View, again. While we're at it, let's also plug Davidson's column on the New York Knicks somehow managing to get tanking wrong by allowing Carmelo Anthony to delay shutting himself down, and 'Melo getting brand management wrong by letting ancillary interests get in the way of Job No. 1.
8th: Bleacher Report. Ethan Skolnick on how Stan Van Gundy has, if not mellowed out, then at least learned to enjoy the peaks his Detroit Pistons are experiencing now after suffering through some valleys to start the season.
9th: ESPN.com. Ethan Sherwood Strauss considers the possibility that Draymond Green, the "heart and soul" of the league-leading Golden State Warriors, could not only receive a max contract offer in restricted free agency this summer, but that he might actually deserve it.
10th: ESPN Boston. Chris Forsberg on how Danny Ainge's seemingly ceaseless swapping calls to mind the "red paperclip" experiment, and the likelihood that Trader Danny can turn the Boston Celtics roster into a two-story farmhouse in Saskatchewan. (Metaphorically speaking.)
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