10 Takeaways From ‘Starting 5,’ Netflix’s Sweaty, Nosy New NBA Docuseries

Getty Images/Ringer illustration From Anthony Edwards's bravado to LeBron James's dad duties to Jimmy Butler's silly and very un-silly moments, 'Starting 5' paints a picture of NBA life—and all the small and big moments that happen behind the scenes I don't mean to brag, but I just might be the perfect viewer for Starting 5, a new Netflix docuseries that follows a handful of NBA players through the 2023-24 season. I say this because I know enough about pro basketball to have been thrilled right off the bat by the list of players featured on the program—LeBron James, Jimmy Butler, Jayson Tatum, Anthony Edwards, and Domantas Sabonis (and I even remember watching that last dude's dad in action!). Yet I'm also a casual enough hoops fan that it took only one episode of Starting 5 for me to embark on Google side quests like "funniest Jimmy Butler moments" and to delight in the results. Geographically, the show is also right in my wheelhouse in more ways than one. Not only do I live close-ish enough to Sacramento to go full Leonardo DiCaprio on every drone shot of the city and note, excitedly: "That's Sacramento!," but I've also spent enough time in Minnesota in the winter to note...