Leave it to my friend Myles Brown—respected writer, astute NBA observer, and Succession stan—to succinctly sum up what it felt like Monday as many teams around the Association held their media day. 

Training camps across the NBA are now open and it absolutely feels like the actual playing of basketball is secondary or even tertiary to all the drama best reserved for a Bravo reality show. But that’s the league these days, and fans and the media eat it all up for obvious reasons. Clicks, ratings, etc. since everything’s a business, or everyone’s dying for some attention in the waste space that is today’s social and digital media landscape. So if you’re really only a fan of the games themselves then please check back in next week when the preseason tips. Or wait another three weeks for truly relevant basketball.