I was strolling around the bottomless tonnage of content owned by the various streaming networks I subscribe to this winter when I found an old friend available on Hulu. “Community,” once a critical darling and straight-up weird show, was suddenly back into my life. It had been a while since I watched but I was soon sucked in again.



The show popped into my head again this week as I considered what to write ahead of the 2019 NBA Draft. The coverage, both at The Athletic New York and in the larger NBA universe on this site, has been hearty. Sam Vecenie has now done eight big boards and there are no shortage of mock drafts in this world.



Last year, I debuted the Remedial Chaos Theory mock drafts. It was, if you missed it, paying homage to one of my favorite episodes of “Community.” The show gets the cast together for a fun night at Troy and Abed’s apartment, and a roll of the dice later, we embark on seven different timelines for the...