Everyone has their favorite team. Maybe you love them because they are your home team or maybe because they win a lot. Maybe you love them because your favorite player plays for them. But in an NBA so rich with talent and intriguing storylines, how can you limit yourself to just one team? These squads deserve second billing in your hearts and remote-holding hands:

5.  Cleveland Cavaliers

These guys might actually be good this year! That of course depends on Andrew Bynum, a player that missed the entire 12-13 season. While I am skeptical that we will ever see Bynum play professional basketball again, this team still boasts a bona fide All-Star (Kyrie Irving), the No. 1 pick of the 2013 NBA Draft (Anthony Bennett), and a trio of young, developing assets (Tristan Thompson, Dion Waiters, Tyler Zeller). Ultimately, this train starts and stops with Uncle Drew, who continues to ascend the ranks of point guard elite with a bottomless bag of ball handling tricks. Games to circle on your calendar: November 6, December 20, January 24, and April 11 all against the Milwaukee Bucks (a revisiting of last year’s Rookie-Sophomore matchup in which Irving utterly demoralized Brandon Knight and exposed the league’s newest punching bag).

4. Detroit Pistons

The engineers from General Motors will tell you that you don’t take the brakes from a BMW, an engine from a Chevrolet, and the muffler from a Hyundai and put it all together to see if it works (alright so I’m clearly not a mechanic but you see where I am going here). Well, that is exactly what general manager Joe Dumars did by bringing in Josh Smith (Swiss Army Knife power forward starting at small forward) and Brandon Jennings (a gunner who even J.R. Smith thinks takes too many bad shots) this offseason. The Pistons are rolling out a massive frontcourt with Smith (6’9’’), Greg Monroe (6’11) and Andre Drummond (6’10’’) all starting. With Mo Cheeks potentially having to start a 37-year-old Chauncey Billups at shooting guard (Rodney Stuckey just broke his thumb in a car door), this team has the makings of a defensive juggernaut on the interior and an offense that would make the International Union of Bricklayers proud. So why are they worthy of being your fourth second-favorite team? For the same reason that Dr. Frankenstein couldn’t wait to flip the switch: to see if it works.

3. Minnesota Timberwolves

The T-Wolves have probably been your No. 1 ranked second-favorite team for a few years now. It’s no secret that the past two seasons have been a disappointment. First, there was the ACL injury to Ricky Rubio. Then, All-Star power forward Kevin Love learned that his right hand was no match for the kinetic forces of knuckle pushups. There was also the unearthing of Brandon Roy’s corpse experiment. Could this be the year when the Basketball Gods finally smile upon the Timberwolves and grace them with perpetual health and a playoff run? The pieces are certainly there. Rubio’s ability to dazzle with unnecessarily fancy passing and Love’s capacity for 20 point, 20 rebound games is a sight to behold. The newly re-signed clobbering center Nikola Pekovic (five years, $60 million) cements the frontcourt, pairing Twin Towers in the Twin Cities.

2. New Orleans Pelicans

The former Hornets sport a new name and one of the best young point guard-power forward pairings in the league (Jrue Holiday-Anthony Davis). The forging of the Jrunibrow will be the key to their success. This team is starting to look reminiscent of a playoffs-era Sam Cassell and Kevin Garnett T-Wolves (in this case Anthony Davis will be playing the part of the extraterrestrial). Eric Gordon is a proven scorer and long range threat, but has been severely limited by health issues. Tyreke Evans is a questionable fit (and even more questionable contract-four years, $44 million) after never really developing to full potential since his 2010 Rookie of the Year season. While some of the parts may not be cemented yet on this roster, it cannot be denied that the Pellies have the same kind of wide-eyed and fresh-faced appeal that a few years ago had us all saying the phrase “Oklahoma City model.”

1. Golden State Warriors

According to Mark Jackson, the baby-faced assassin (Stephen Curry) and Trey Thompson (Klay Thompson) are the best shooting backcourt in the league. That is certainly hard to argue with considering that Curry broke the single-season record for most three-pointers made (272) and still managed to have the third highest 3-point shooting percentage in the league (45.3%). It’s official: the title of “Sweetest Stroke in the Game” has been pried away from Kevin Durant. To complement the Splash Brothers, Bob Myers added one of the best perimeter defenders and dunkers in the league. Some may lament that the insertion of Andre Iguodala negatively impacts the potential of second-year player Harrison Barnes (certainly no dunking slouch), but those concerns should be alleviated throughout the season as both Iguodala and Barnes have the ability to play multiple positions (Iggy is an excellent point forward and underrated playmaker, Barnes can play a small ball power forward).  My intuition tells me that there will be no shortage of highlights in Oracle Arena.