Why you should watch in 2014-15

— -- Preseason games have already started trickling in and international exhibition games will soon be here and gone. When the dust of roster cuts and preseason prognostications settles, we'll be staring down the barrel of the 2014-15 NBA season, complete with brand-new storylines, highlights and drama ready to fuel discussion and rooting interests.

The problem with the regular season, though, is there are so many games. It's hard to keep up with everything on a nightly basis, especially when a random 13-game Wednesday schedule mocks your lack of a social life and dares you to keep track of every player and team you're interested in.

(If only there were a guide to each team and why you should want to watch them this coming season ...)

Luckily, I'm here for you. As you prepare for the season and load up those five-team League Pass subscriptions, here are reasons why you should be watching each team in the NBA this season.

Atlanta Hawks

Any basketball hipster will tell you how fun Hawks basketball is, because it is. Mike Budenholzer's offense is all about ball movement, passing and those basketball secrets Gregg Popovich passes down to anybody who has worked with him. Budenholzer was in San Antonio for nearly two decades, so he certainly picked up some stuff here and there. Look at how the Hawks pushed the Indiana Pacers in last season's first-round playoff series despite not having Al Horford, their best player. This team knows how to play and maximize the skill on the roster.

One more good reason to watch the Hawks: You get to become extra knowledgeable about Horford and lead the good fight on how he's an actual center and doesn't need to move to power forward.

He's been a center pretty much his entire life. He just happened to play the same position as Joakim Noah in college, so some think that he has been out of position his entire career. He hasn't. If he had gone to the University of Texas and played next to power forward LaMarcus Aldridge, we'd be saying, "Hey, that Al Horford is a heck of a center!"

Catch some fun Hawks games and join the good guys.