Carter Reynolds breaks down the NBA's defining offseason: the Giannis trade to Miami, the Morant and LaMelo moves, Washington's max-extension gamble, five new coaches, a rebuilt schedule, and the injury returns that will decide a loaded Eastern Conference — 23 days before opening night.

Offseason special: the blockbuster trades that redrew the East, the camp battles and injuries that will shape September, and the CBA economics underneath it all — nine days before training camps open.

The week the Clippers scandal swallowed the league: the Wachtell findings, the harshest sanctions in modern NBA history, a frozen Kawhi Leonard trade, and a Board of Governors meeting that will force Adam Silver to answer for all of it.