Sensitive City is off to a puzzlingly poor start; the "Heat" don't work; Mamdani City does not look like defending champs; Yellow is not back; the "Wizards" are still Lizards; the "Raptors" are not enrapturing; there are three teams in the Eastern Conference playing .700 ball; there are seven in the West. The East is not a Beast, it's the Least again.