As discussed previously – my first child joined the IGHN family about a month before the season started. While everyone on the staff has been very supportive – not one of them has offered to babysit. This means I’ve missed most of the first month of this NBA season.

Even though I haven’t been able to watch the games on television – I have been able to watch this season unfold on Twitter. In that vein, below is not a recap of what has happened in the first part of this young season, it is a recap of what you would think has happened had you only been paying attention to Twitter.

• The Lakers couldn’t beat Kentucky.
• Is James Harden better than LeBron James better than Michael Jordan?
• Royce White somehow got everyone to talk about something other than his pube-beard.
• Andrew Bynum’s hair is funny. Also, Andrew Bynum’s hair is funny.
• Phil Jackson asked Jerry Buss if he could coach via Skype on the bench.
• Jeff Green is the most overpaid ‘Point Forward’ in the league.
• Christian Eyenga is the most underpaid ‘FORDWAR’ in the game.
• Anthony Davis is awesome, Damian Lillard is good and some other rookies did some stuff. Maybe. Who cares.
• The Dude A-Bynums.
• Anderson Varejao is the most skilled offensive player in the league.
• Roy Hibbert is bad, Javale McGee is good, and the Mayans were right.
• Also – that Mayan joke has gotten used. A lot.
• Rajon Rondo set the NBA record for games with 10+ assists by an alien half-lizard creature.
• JR Smith improved his basketball game by quit trying to make it rain.
• Gangnam style is like NBA herpes. It keeps flaring up every few weeks.
• Kyrie Irving died.

There was also some noise about Dwight Howard and Deron Williams breaking up, but I didn’t pay much attention since I already have one baby in my life.