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.
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C: Sports Illustrated. Rob Mahoney tries to answer an interesting question — when you've got a player as good and as unique as Stephen Curry, how do you coach him to make him better? — by chatting with Warriors head coach Steve Kerr, assistant coach Bruce Fraser and the man himself.
PF: numberFire. A statistical argument that, while he might never win a Most Improved Player award, Gordon Hayward might be the most improved player in the league over the course of the last five seasons.
SF: D Magazine. Zac Crain talks to Tyson Chandler, a giant with "the shoulders-back carriage of a man fully at ease with himself," about how returning to the Dallas Mavericks via trade after three seasons with the New York Knicks made him feel anything but at-ease: "When I left, it was like [...] I don’t know, a girlfriend that you would always love, but that you weren’t with. She would always have a special place in your heart. I left, and I put it behind me. So when I came back, it kind of screwed my mind up a little bit.”
SG: The Triangle. Zach Lowe considers a number of players who might wind up becoming big-bang-for-the-buck free-agent additions this summer for teams smart enough to snap them up on the cheap.
PG: TSN. Good stuff from Josh Lewenberg on how the Toronto Raptors have worked to develop Jonas Valanciunas on both ends of the floor, a process that includes both a "JV rule" about when and where to pass to the big man and an emphasis on "ass hits."
6th: Fear the Sword. David Zavac takes a stab at justifying paying Tristan Thompson twice as much as someone like Ed Davis in free agency this summer.
7th: 8 Points, 9 Seconds. It took him a little while to get acclimated to the NBA game, but Damjan Rudez has been shooting the lights out for the Indiana Pacers over the past couple of months, helping give Frank Vogel and company the kind of frontcourt floor-spacer they've been missing for years.
8th: Grantland. A bit late on this, but I thought Thomas Golianopoulos' profile of Jeanie Buss offered a pretty interesting and sober perspective on what it's like to juggle the competing pressures of running a blue-blood brand like the Los Angeles Lakers, trying to honor your late and legendary father's wishes, and figuring out how to productively coexist in a professional context with a sibling who might not see things the way you do.
9th: Beyond the Arc. Kevin Lipe offers about as succinct a summation as possible of trying to analyze the Memphis Grizzlies at this stage of the season, after a month and a half of curious stumbling: "I don't have any idea which of the five remaining games the Grizzlies will actually show up for and care about. I have a pretty good hunch that it won't be all five of them."
10th: Bleacher Report. Dennis Hans has a lot of thoughts about how to decrease the NBA's skyrocketing reliance on the 3-point shot. Step one: Make it worth less than three points. Definitely on board for hearing Marv Albert say, "Curry, for two-point-three-three ... YES!"
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