The NBA is back...sort of.
Training camps across the league are nearly underway, but before the best and brightest ballers on planet Earth get back to the business of playing basketball, they'll have to spend some quality time sitting at podiums, answering inane questions and mugging for the cameras.
That is to say, it's time for media days.
Five teams—the Brooklyn Nets, San Antonio Spurs, Miami Heat, Cleveland Cavaliers and Sacramento Kings—got a head start to their festivities on Friday before preparing for their respective preseason trips overseas as part of the NBA's Global Games. The rest of the Association's scrum-taculars will get going in earnest next week.
For now, let's have a look at some of the highlights, lowlights and erstwhile lights from the opening day of the NBA's pre-preseason.
Brooklyn Nets
The Nets were the first to fling open their doors at 10:30 a.m. ET. Not surprisingly, the offseason coaching change—more specifically, Jason Kidd's decision to bolt for the Milwaukee Bucks' gig—was the topic du jour.
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