By now every major team publication or website's team previews have been out for some time (Hollinger and Dwyer are my two favorites) so other than adding a funny line (as if I had any) or rewording a particular sentence there is not much I can add you don't already know about the upcoming NBA season.

So rather than go into the usual cut and paste, blog obligatory features (positional rankings, over/underrated and power ranking) or breaking down the game of our 12th man to its most minute detail, I thought I'd flip the script and create a preview even the countless number of sports bloggers could use.

So without further ado-feel free to add and contribute to the list-here is the annual preview of NBA team fans.

Dallas Mavericks

Strengths: Blonde hair and silicon. Lots and lots of Silicon.

Weaknesses:

DuJuan Blair is a beast. George Hill is a point guard. If Spurs fans take anything away from this year's preseason, these two stories were the most prominent throughout the exhibition season.
Sure, there were other things to glean from this year's games (if you had the opportunity to watch them), though most were simple reaffirmations of what we already knew (Tony Parker is really good) or had too small a sample size (can we take the bubble wrap off of Manu Ginobili) to draw an educated conclusion.

Not since 2003 have the Spurs had two young players with such exciting, unknown upside that were also ready to contribute heavily in the Spurs regular season rotation. Then the Spurs counted on a rookie Ginobili and a still wet behind the ears Parker as key cogs in a championship run.

This preseason

· The Austin Toros experiment, to date, is entirely dependent on Malik Hairston at this point-more so than George Hill or DuJuan Blair, I looked forward to this preseason to see what fruits the Spurs developmental league team would bare.

Mahinmi is still the biggest mystery and might be worth extending. Right now I think for player comparisons you can start at Francisco Elson as your worst case scenario though his ceiling seems to be dropping fast.

Williams appears to be an NBA player. Though I can only envision him as a point forward that neither helps nor hurts you-only he's young, still learning, and at this point does, in fact, hurt you.

The good news is Hairston seems ready now but still D-league eligible. The best thing I can say about Hairston is that no situation seems too big