This is the doldrums of the NBA calendar.
The 2021 season is over but the 2022 season has not quite begun. The league is quiet — perhaps, too quiet — and there is not likely to be any more moves. Something might creep up — like the Lauri Markkanen sign and trade to eliminate the last major free agent on the market — but there is nothing much going on.
Training camps do not begin for another month. The NBA’s 2022 season became a little real with the release of the schedule last week. But it does not become real for a lot of fans until the release of the next edition of NBA 2K.