Four months after the Celtics conquered the NBA to win their record 18th title, a new season will kick off where the last one ended. On Tuesday night, the Celtics and Knicks open the 2024-25 campaign at TD Garden.
Maybe it doesn’t feel like the NBA has been gone for long, with a memorable Olympic basketball tournament and an electric WNBA season providing a hoops fix throughout the summer and early fall. But plenty has changed in that time, with top contenders swinging big trades and free agency shifting the landscape of the league once more.