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The 10-man rotation, starring Oscar Schmidt, the Brazilian great for whom shooting was a way of life

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: Grantland. Amos Barshad with a wonderful story on Oscar Schmidt, the Brazilian and European basketball legend whom many consider to be the greatest player never to play in the NBA, and a Hall of Famer with supreme confidence that he would've been one of the best ever to play in the NBA had he made the decision to come over: “Basket, the same. Ball, the same. Basketball, the same. In every part of the world, I didn’t see a guy that could guard me!"

PF: Sports Illustrated. Lee Jenkins on LeBron James' approach to team-building in Cleveland, and why his brand of leadership works: "They’ll follow him because he provides what everyone in the NBA wants, a little space and a clean look."

SF: ESPN Insider ($). Dwyane Wade doesn't shoot 3-pointers that often, and doesn't shoot them that well. So why do opponents stay glued to him off the ball like he's Stephen Curry? Tom Haberstroh uses some exclusive SportVU optical tracking data to examine the Miami Heat shooting guard's "gravity" away from the ball. (Haberstroh's fellow ESPN Insider Kevin Pelton's got more on SportVU's "Gravity Score," "Distraction Score" and "Respect Rating" metrics. Very interesting stuff.)

SG: Magic Basketball. Scott Rafferty breaks down the new four-year, $54 million contract extension that the Orlando Magic gave Nikola Vucevic, which gives GM Rob Hennigan and coach Jacque Vaughn a chance to find out if the double-double-machine center can become the kind of player worth building around while their top-of-the-lottery young pieces (Victor Oladipo, Aaron Gordon, Elfrid Payton) grow on the cheap.

PG: ESPN.com. J.A. Adande on the ever-admirable Memphis Grizzlies, who might never be elite, but who'd probably chafe under a white collar anyway.

6th: TrueHoop. Chris Herrington on how this year's Grizzlies — led by "the most productive and durable local quartet since […] Booker T. & the MGs" — might be the best model in franchise history.

7th: San Antonio Express-News. A good read from Jeff McDonald on what it's like to be Bryce Cotton, JaMychal Green and Josh Davis, who got the chance to go to camp with the defending champion San Antonio Spurs but knew that they had no chance of making the team.

8th: ESPN.com. Longtime NBA scribe Charley Rosen gets Phil Jackson to offer a detailed scouting report on every single member of the New York Knicks. I'm trying to imagine any other Knicks executive working under James Dolan at any point over the past couple of decades doing anything similar to this, and I can't even come close to it. If nothing else, transparency in the Garden!

9th: Wizards Insider. It seems Randy Wittman is not a fan of the idea of shortening NBA games or the NBA season, and he's more than willing to go on a five-minute rant about it, if you'd like him to.

10th: Dancing with Noah. You know how you're always saying that we don't do nearly enough promotion of poetry about how people write and talk about Kobe Bryant? Well, now it's a little harder for you to say that.

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