A 20-hour ode to basketball that isn’t just Clippers-Spurs 2015? Sign me up

ESPN announced an absurd, incredible project on Wednesday: a 10-part, 20-hour documentary series called Basketball: A Love Story from stud director Dan Klores. It includes like 15 dozen interviews with players and personalities from across the eras, and will be available in late September, with a weekly October roll-out on ESPN proper. (Basically, we’re all going to binge it in September, OK?)

Twenty hours of basketball talk seems like a lot, but that’s about seven or eight games worth of content or two days on NBA Twitter. It’ll be fine. There’s also a book based on the documentary with interview snippets, which would be worth a shrug if it weren’t co-authored by Greatest Basketball Writer Ever Jackie MacMullan and the brilliant Rafe Bartholomew. So get ready to spend money on that, too.

The WNBA Finals are set! (They were set Tuesday night. One of the downfalls of a reduced NBA offseason schedule for Good Morning It’s Basketball is we have delayed reactions to awesome WNBA playoffs developments.) The Washington Mystics will face the Seattle Storm in the best-of-five championship series, beginning Friday (9 p.m. ET on ESPNEWS).

This is a departure from the Lynx-Sparks battles we’re used to, but there’s still plenty of star power with Elena Delle Donne, Breanna Stewart, and Masked Sue Bird. Should be great!

It’s Hall of Fame Weekend. Sekou Smith interviewed inductee Grant Hill about validation. John Schuhmann on inductee Jason Kidd’s mastery of the game. Inductee Steve Nash could have been so different. Inductee Tina Thompson had a storybook career. (Does the Friday induction ceremony conflict with Game 1 of the WNBA Finals? Of course it does! Get it together, y’all.)

I picked five teams that should beat their Vegas win total over-under lines.

Dan Devine ranks fun bad teams.

The Pelicans got Tyrone Wallace to sign a reasonable offer sheet (smart) and the Clippers matched (smart).

Derrick Stafford has retired after 30 years as an NBA referee.

Tom Thibodeau’s Timberwolves are reportedly looking at signing Luol Deng, have eclipsed satire.

Jayson Tatum is ruthless!

Andrew Sharp on the MVP race.

Ten questions about the Pacers.

What Celtics fans need to know about Brad Wanamaker.

Kevin Durant is still arguing with randos on Instagram.

You might have heard that Nike made blackballed quarterback Colin Kaepernick the centerpiece of its new campaign. The first ad also features LeBron James, who has spoken up in support of Kaepernick. Here’s Tyler Tynes on the campaign.

Speaking tangentially of football, be sure to check out SB Nation’s grand NFL season preview. The season kicks off Thursday.

Be excellent to each other.