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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: Prada’s Pictures. Mike Prada breaks down how Mike D’Antoni’s system and the Houston Rockets’ offseason reconfiguration — sayonara, Dwight Howard; hello, Ryan Anderson and Eric Gordon — have made James Harden damn near unguardable.
PF: The Undefeated. Marc K. Spears on how summers at L.A.’s legendary Drew League helped Harden prepare for spending so much time on the ball under D’Antoni.
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SF: The New York Times and Bleacher Report. Scott Cacciola and Dan Favale on Giannis Antetokounmpo’s continuing rampage as an evolutionary point center who’s still just scratching the surface of what he can be for the Milwaukee Bucks.
SG: PistonPowered. Braden Shackelford on how losing Reggie Jackson to injury for the first month of the season, while far from the way Stan Van Gundy drew it up, has proven to be something of a blessing in disguise for the still-growing and evolving Detroit Pistons.
PG: Bay Area News Group and Bleacher Report. Anthony Slater on how Kevin Durant has grown into a potentially dominating defender over the years, and Erik Malinowski on how Draymond Green continues to fill in every gap on a Golden State Warriors defense that, after a slow start, is once again back among the league’s 10 stingiest in points allowed per possession.
6th: FiveThirtyEight and ESPN Insider ($). Big brains Chris Herring and Kevin Pelton try to figure out why exactly the Minnesota Timberwolves keep cratering after halftime.
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7th: Bleacher Report. Amos Barshad went to Istanbul, because that’s where David Blatt is coaching these days, and he came home with a pretty great read on the ousted Cleveland Cavaliers coach.
8th: Heat.com. My man Couper Moorhead on how the Miami Heat have gotten Goran Dragic going downhill over the past three games.
9th: Raptors Republic. Blake Murphy on the resurgence of the hammer Kyle Lowry And The Bench second-unit lineup that fueled so much of the Toronto Raptors’ success last year.
10th: The Athletic. Eric Koreen on the love affair between the injured Jared Sullinger and his scooter that he hopes will help him become less injured.
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