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.com. A fascinating read from Kevin Arnovitz on what's been going on with Larry Sanders — what precipitated his December departure from the Milwaukee Bucks, how his substance abuse suspension short-circuited a grand statement the young big man aimed to make, how he pushed for a buyout against his representatives' advice, what led him to his first-person explanation, and so much more.
PF: The Sporting News. Sean Deveney sees National Basketball Player's Association executive director Michele Roberts' recent jabs at the way some media members conduct themselves in NBA locker rooms as another piece of evidence that she's looking to succeed in one major area that Billy Hunter failed: "She is seeking the utmost loyalty of the players she has been assigned to represent."
SF: Posting and Toasting. In which Joe Flynn argues that Miami Heat forward Henry Walker, formerly known as New York Knicks forward Bill Walker, is just the latest instance of Pat Riley haunting the Knickerbockers, and that Riles has another few former-Knick signee-reboots up his sleeve.
SG: Sports Illustrated. On a more serious tip, here's David Vertsberger's chat with Walker about falling out of the NBA, traveling around the world and finding himself back in the bigs, taking game-defining shots in South Beach.
PG: Quirks and Quiddities. Dimitri Thalakada considers Goran Dragic's departure from the desert through the lens of another circumstance in which the Phoenix Suns moved on from an All-NBA-caliber point guard: "Suns fans feeling stung by the loss of Dragić would be wise to remember [...] that sometimes you have to give up on a good team before you can create a great one."
6th: Regressing. In which Kyle Wagner argues that the rising tide of discussion about analytics that considers the Philadelphia 76ers and Houston Astros to represent the vanguard of analytically focused teams is doing a disservice to, well, everything: "[...] talk about teams' 'commitment to analytics' disingenuous by definition if the examination of that commitment ends at How much are they trying? without touching upon how much they're succeeding."
7th: ESPN.com. Michael Wallace on Luol Deng, who "can forgive because he never forgets," and how he became the man he is.
8th: VICE Sports. Matt Osgood on the itinerant and decidedly un-big-league life of a D-Leaguer, which carries with it a certain patent unfairness: "They are better at their jobs than we are at our own. Yet they occupy some ledge of perpetual almost-ness."
9th: RealGM. Brett Koremenos goes deep on the nature of play-calling in the NBA, and we get smarter as a result. Coaching!
10th: San Antonio Express-News. The San Antonio Spurs don't look very much like the San Antonio Spurs right now, and a big reason why is that Tony Parker doesn't look very much like Tony Parker. You know who knows that, and knows it needs to change? Tony Parker.
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