NBA’s 2020 free agency period starts at 6 p.m. ET on Friday, less than 48 hours after the draft, and a scant 32 days before the start of the next season. Pretty much the only thing that anyone seems certain about is that it’s going to be a friggin’ madhouse.

[Join Dan Devine as he takes a look at what to expect when free agency starts tonight.]

The Animaniacs episode “Variety Speak,” which aired in September 1995 during the show’s third season, features a whole song about the weird inside baseball of Variety magazine. “‘Hix makes pix, but the flick needs fix,’ means someone made a movie that bombed,” Dot and Yakko sing in a call and response. “‘The veeps in charge are now at large’ means everyone involved is gone / ‘The plot conflicts, no beautiful chix,’ so it’s coming out on video soon / ‘They’re taking their licks, ’cause the critics say nix,’ and the editors are going to try to fix it in the mix.”

[Read Tim Greiving's look back at the original Animaniacs with its key players.]

This year, the NFL has driven home a point that was already pretty clear: Offenses are the league’s heroes. In the past few seasons, we have fawned over wild, high-scoring games like the Chiefs-Rams Monday Night thriller, but lamented low-scoring contests, such as Super Bowl LIII. That isn’t to say defenses are the villains. Defenses are more like antiheroes. The purpose of defense is to prevent scoring—and so it’s just not as fun to watch good defenses as it is good offenses.

[Read Kaelen Jones on the pass rushers who are primed for Defensive Player of the Year.]