The first episode of Starting 5 is titled “Meet the Hoopers”, and it’s clearly focused on introductions, but the notion that introductions are necessary is pretty silly, given the star caliber we’re talking about here.

There’s just enough here to make the series entertaining, at least to anyone wondering how the 1 percent live. .... To the extent we learn anything about these guys away from the game, it’s mostly thanks to the women in their lives — mothers, sisters, wives, girlfriends — who bring some semblance of normalcy and humanity to the series.

As “Starting 5” progresses through Christmas Day, the All-Star game, and eventually the playoffs, there’s not enough sense of momentum to give the star power assembled any structure.