Welcome to the whirlwind.
It has now been eight days since the NBA lifted its trade moratorium, and six since the 2020 NBA Draft. We are entering our fifth day of free-agent negotiations, with official signings commencing last Sunday. Training camps are set to begin a week from today. In other words, we are almost exactly at the midpoint of a two-week tornado of activity that essentially put all the ways NBA teams can reinvent themselves during the offseason into a blender and pushed “Puree.”
Wasn’t it just last month that Minnesota Timberwolves die-hards were scrutinizing 30-second footage of intrasquad scrimmages, pretending there was relevant intel available if only the tea leaves could be distinguished from the cracks in the cup?
Now the wind is howling. Anthony Edwards is here, Ricky Rubio has returned, Malik Beasley is paid, and Ed Davis has come to save Juancho Hernangomez and Jake Layman from being posterized by a procession of…
