So…Is This It?

It's almost the end of July. Are the Knicks done?

Good morning! Summer League officially ended on Monday, meaning that all the hoops attention will now turn to the US Olympic team, which kicks things off this weekend against Serbia. On the NBA front, besides little drips and drabs, we haven’t had much action the last few weeks. Does that mean the summer transaction season is done? I’ll attempt to answer that question starting today.

So…Is This It?

You may have gotten the memo that the 2024-25 NBA season starts three weeks from this past Monday. The schedules haven’t been released yet, but I’d say there’s a 50/50 shot that the season will kick off with the Knicks visiting Boston on ring right.

(If it’s not them, I’d guess it’ll be Philly.)

This seems like a long time left in the offseason, and while that’s technically true, the NBA has not traditionally featured many major transactions between mid-July and mid-October. Whatever your roster looked like in the middle of July was usually what it would look like on opening night.

That’s what makes the last two offseasons so interesting, and why we shouldn’t put away our trade machines just yet this summer.