I debuted Cleaning the Glass Insider last year with three articles that detailed the big-picture questions I had about the coming season. As I wrote:

There’s a lot to be excited about when the NBA starts again, but for me no part of it is more exciting than that feeling of suspense as we get ready to find out how all of the new teams, new players, and new schemes play out. We get to learn the answers to our questions.

Over the next few weeks I’ll be revisiting the questions posed in those articles and attempting to detail what we learned from the past year, starting with the first question I asked: Does it matter that there’s only one ball?