Thoughts on the Bucks season opener player intros:

• Holy Christmas! I haven’t seen that much flashing red and green since last year when I drove around the suburbs looking at Christmas lights.
• How can Bango wear gym shorts with a tail? Does he have to cut a hole in the shorts or does his tail literally grow through the fabric? ;)
• Based on his bizarre tweets, I was mildly nervous when Brandon Jennings came out to address the fans. I was half expecting him to yell out, “fyddakadsjkasddaskadl!”

Thoughts on the Raptors season opener intros:

• Whoever edited the jumbotron intro loves themselves some mosaic and checkerboard transitions.
• I translate the “the past is past” message as “smell ya later Bosh, you big dummy.”
• Interesting to see how each team handles “the big reveal” in different ways. This time I guess they just decided to gather the team into a circle and place them under a big sheet.
• I could swear the Grizzlies introduced Julian Wright in their intro too.
• The music during player intros reminded me of sound effects they play during plane crash movies. After it, I felt like I had just pounded 6 or 7 Red Bulls.

Not too much to snark about with the Grizzles season opener player intro. Pretty standard stuff except that a couple guys didn’t seem to know what was going on with the 10th anniversary door. Otherwise, it’s Al Kapone and an orchestra. And variations of the chant: The Memphis Grizzlies! Yeeeeeah! YEAH! Make some noise! It’s the Memphis Grizzlies!

Obviously John Wall’s “dougie” was the highlight of the Wiz’s season opener intro, but one other thing caught my ear. Listen to the way the PA guy pronounces Hinrich. Sounds like Hiiiiiiighn Reeeeeeeeeek. Delightfully odd.

Things that stood out from the GSW season opener player intro:

• The camera guy appears to get lost during the assistant coach introductions
• One assistant coach is not like the others (notice the height differential between last 2 dudes)
• Why’d they make the backups run down the stairs? Were they not worthy to run across the Golden Gate Bridge prop like the starters?
• Other than Steph Curry, David Lee, Vlad Rad & Monta Ellis, who the hell are these people???

The Timberwolves season opener player intros were pretty vanilla ice cream. Nothing too exciting except that watching them did force me to remember that the corpses of Sebastian Telfair and Darko Milicic are still in the league. Oh wait, one thing stood out though… When did the Timberwolves sign that little kid from Jerry Maguire?

How come nobody told me how awesome this Nets season opener intro before the player intros was? It’s like a discotheque sprinkled with a little essence of a tv show about the secret service topped off with a little 90s Puff Daddy video. Jordan Farmar blowing a kiss has to be the pinnacle. It’s like he’s saying, “Forget the Lakers man. F—k that winning nonsense. I’m a New Jersey freakin Net and proud of it. Get in line, ladies.”

I like the Spurs season opener intro even though it starts out like an Eminem video that turns into a commercial for a monster truck rally. The player intros still have a no-nonsense quality to them that I think is fitting.

Ok, one more season opener intro. Nobody is as festive as New Orleans. I love that about them.

Even though he shot t-shirt bullets at KG last year a couple years ago, I still love Benny the bull, the Chicago Bulls mascot. I love that they let him join the team huddle.