The 10-man rotation, starring owners and players talking, which is a start
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: The Boston Globe. In his Sunday notes column closing the book on the recent Hall of Fame induction ceremonies, Gary Washburn’s got a bit from NBA Commissioner Adam Silver saying that the league’s labor relations committee hopes “to get together this fall” with the National Basketball Players Association’s executive committee to “continue the discussions we’ve been having” about trying to get the framework for a new collective bargaining agreement in place and hopefully avoiding a work stoppage come 2017. That seems like another reason for optimism; the great David Aldridge has four more.
PF: r/NBA. This exceptionally cool infographic created by Reddit user gordontrue showcases every single All-NBA team in league history in one GIF. You’ll need to go full-screen for the full experience, but it’s really cool.
SF: Sportsnet Magazine. A bit late to this, but I really enjoyed Evan Rosser’s story about Toronto Raptors general manager Masai Ujiri’s August trip to Nigeria and Ghana to run his Giants of Africa youth camp, a long-running summertime mission that’s become about a lot more than just training players: “This camp is my way of figuring out a way to bring, you know, like, maybe, the continent together.”
SG: Eye on Basketball. Matt Moore on how the now-closer-than-ever prospect of all 30 NBA teams owning their own D-League affiliates would change the future of American basketball.
PG: The Triangle. Zach Lowe reports that the NBA is funding its own study into the use of small devices that players wear on their bodies to measure their physical and physiological exertion levels — devices that could provide treasure troves of information to teams eager to find smart new ways to keep their players healthy and in top working order, but that also figure to raise plenty of privacy and information security concerns for players who might not want everyone at the league office (and beyond) to have access to all that information.
6th: The New York Times Magazine. I really enjoyed Jay Caspian Kang’s feature on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, “the least understood basketball player of all time,” who at long last seems to be finding some common cause with an audience as a widely read columnist, social critic, political pundit and, now, a novelist.
7th: SB Nation. Tom Ziller and Paul Flannery’s fantastic summer-long All-Decade Teams project, collected for commemoration and rediscovery whenever you get the urge to celebrate our shared basketball-loving past.
8th: The Cauldron. Jared Dubin identifies a half-dozen candidates to break out this coming NBA season.
9th: ESPN.com. A good read from Mark Woods about an unlikely catalyst behind the Spanish national team’s victory in EuroBasket 2015.
10th: Pro Hoops History. Curtis Harris comes in praise of Billy Cunningham, “The Kangaroo Kid,” one of the most gifted players of the mid-1960s and early 1970s and a phenomenally successful sideline stalker who very nearly made his way onto the “top NBA coaches not in the Hall of Fame” list I wrote last week.
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