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ESPN’s Shams Charania predicts upcoming NBA offseason will be ‘craziest’ ever
ESPN’s Shams Charania predicts upcoming NBA offseason will be ‘craziest’ ever
Coming off the heels of one of the craziest trade deadlines ever–spearheaded by Luka Doncic‘s Lakers blockbuster–ESPN NBA insider Shams Charania believes that this could be one of the craziest offseasons in NBA History.
We are still in the conference finals, so it’s still not technically the offseason for every team. We are over one month away from the start of free agency and just under a month away from the 2025 NBA Draft.
However, that’s not stopping Charania, the league’s top insider, from forecasting chaos before the actual storm.
“This is the most anticipation team executives have had over an offseason,” Charania said Tuesday on The Pat McAfee Show. “We just came off a trade deadline that was the craziest of all-time. I think this offseason might be the most craziest ever.
“I think what you have right now is the parity of the league, it’s so thin right now. As far as the line of, you could win a championship, or you might be falling into the lottery. And I think the ability to go out there and improve your team and get there to the championship level, I think that’s on the minds of everyone around the league.”
Parity is at an all-time high, and it will continue to be that way as long as the second apron is in place. The league will have seven different NBA champions in seven years for the first time ever. Superteams are essentially dead, unless you somehow have all of those players on rookie or very inexpensive contracts.
Giannis Antetokounmpo is still mulling over his future in Milwaukee. Depending on what his decision is could change the NBA’s landscape; we don’t know what the next domino to fall will be, but Kevin Durant is on the chopping block. The Boston Celtics are going to be shedding salary (Kristaps Porzingis, Jrue Holiday), and I wouldn’t be surprised if the Minnesota Timberwolves, Denver Nuggets, Cleveland Cavaliers or New York Knicks are next.
I don’t always buy into the extremist mindset; I want to see it before I believe it. The NBA is a league that never sleeps and now that we’re nearly three years into this new CBA, I wouldn’t be surprised if big activity ensues.
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