After a long summer of topless championship parades, free-agency meetings in the Hamptons, Snapchat mishaps, and gold medals, the NBA is finally, truly, really, almost back. The start of training camp marks the beginning of our NBA Preview.

It’s nearly October. The 2016–17 NBA season draws near. Now that J.R. Smith has (we think) found his shirt once again, our attention turns to more nuanced matters: the heroic foray of the league’s most mustachioed duo. Lineups of Death be damned: In the second entry to the Ringer Arcade, animated by Matt Hill, the Mustache Bros. — Steven Adams and Enes Kanter — set out to rescue a former teammate and restore the balance of power in the Western Conference. Or at least that was the original plan …