Actual NBA Basketball is back!

An exhibition game in Japan and some very real around-the-league notes that most certainly count in our standings are yours on this Friday ... and it's not even Oct. 1 yet

Confession time: I did not wake up at 5 AM CT on this first Friday since NBA training camps opened to watch Golden State and Washington play live in Japan.

I had a feeling, as confirmed by the enclosed maiden box score of the new season, that there would be limited minutes for the likes of Stephen Curry (13:05) and Bradley Beal (17:34) and Klay Thompson …