The NBA gives teams trophies if they win the championship, but there is no award if your team had a good offseason.
NBA teams aren’t competing to win during the summer (unless you count Summer League in Las Vegas, exciting Drew League games in L.A., The Basketball Tournament on ESPN, etc.).
But all the recent transactions are wildly impactful on the road to winning championships. So what teams have made the best moves since the playoffs ended, factoring in the draft and the trade market?
We still have dust left to settle with potential blockbusters involving Kevin Durant and Donovan Mitchell. But based on what we have seen thus far, this is how we would grade each organization: