With the 2025-26 NBA season upon us, it’s time to consolidate.

The last three months complicated every team’s picture with hirings, firings, draft picks, trades, signings, glow-ups, injuries, alleged cap-circumvention and everything in between. We can’t put together a season preview that encompasses all of that. It’d be impossible, and our attention spans can no longer focus on…wait, what was I saying?

We have to think more narrowly.

Let’s try setting up the campaign by choosing one word for every team, and building out from there.