No, y’all are right, the Sixers are great

Good morning. Let’s basketball.

PREVIEWS! Apparently it’s controversial to assert that the Sixers are still terrible! (Seriously, y’all are salty.) Here’s Liberty Ballers’ preview as well. Professor Flannery and I are more positive about the Suns, who we feel is a sleeper in the West. Here’s what Bright Side of the Suns has to say.

GILBERT’S TAKE: Gilbert Arenas posted a couple Instagrams seeking to correct the record on the recently-told-by-Caron-Butler tale of how Gil and Javaris Crittenton ended up with guns in the locker room. Basically, the card game played out much differently in a way that makes Crittenton (currently serving a prison sentence for manslaughter) look like a lunatic and Gil says JaVale McGee and Butler tried to hide the weapons after the fact while Gil and Javaris chilled in the jacuzzi. For real. Gil later deleted the Instagram that explains that latter point.

HEY: Julius Randle is seriously good. This behind-the-back to Kobe is eye-popping.

NOTED: If you wear LeBrons and you’re playing against LeBron, he is not going to thank you for being a customer but he is going to bust you.

YOU KNOW HOW I KNOW IT’S PRESEASON: Because Jon Leuer busted on DeMarcus Cousins the other night.

GAME 3: Game 3 of the WNBA Finals is tonight at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN2. The Fever and Lynx are tied up 1-1.

SUPERSTAR: Here’s another local Timofey Mozgov commercial, this one for a trampoline park. Via Alexander Chernykh.

NEW START: Sam Amick on LaMarcus Aldridge’s preseason debut with the Spurs and his challenge to fit in while taking over.

AFTER THE RUPTURE: Jonathan Abrams talks to Wesley Matthews about Dallas and recovery.

SO LONG, NAZR: A thoughtful post in which Nazr Mohammed says goodbye to basketball.

UPGRADES: John Schuhmann looks at the candidates for the most improved offenses this season.

MORE ON BARNES VS. FISHER: Matt Barnes talked to the media about his fisticuffs with former teammate Derek Fisher, and it feels like he thinks he was totally justified to roll through his estranged wife’s house and rough up her new boyfriend. What’s worse, wide swaths of the fandom and the institution of basketball think that’s OK, too. IT’S NOT. Women are not property, and Matt Barnes has no right to legislate his soon-to-be-ex’s love life via fists. Barnes has mentioned that his kids were there, and that’s why he went to the house. If you don’t like your kids being introduced to a new man while the divorce is pending -- a fair position -- you work it out in the custody arrangement, not in the makeshift boxing ring. If you were really trying to protect your kids then you have an absurd way of showing it. Exposing them to passionate, personal violence is not the answer. Remember here that Barnes has twice been arrested for domestic violence. If he arrived and told Fisher to leave, there’s absolutely a reason for Fisher to stay: to protect Barnes’ estranged wife. That’s a damn sad state of affairs, but Barnes has proven he can’t be trusted in the heat of the moment.

You’re 35 years old, dude. Grow the hell up and stop torturing your family.

The rest of you: have a good weekend. See you next time.