With other champions — namely LeBron James’ Heat and Stephen Curry’s Warriors — the rest of the NBA took caution. Teams paused their big maneuvers until the dynastic cores aged out or at least looked more vulnerable.
But this is a different NBA. Adam Silver loves to trumpet his parity, and clearly the East isn’t intimidated by the Knicks.
Look at the moves around the conference:
The Heat went all in with Giannis Antetokounmpo.