If the NBA landscape dramatically shifts over the 2022 offseason, those changes are most likely to come on the trade market. While free agency could produce a few stunners, there aren't many clubs with money to spend or impact players available.
The Philadelphia 76ers have an NBA MVP candidate in Joel Embiid, a young, ascending talent in Tyrese Maxey and a slew of question marks around them. As far as the elite-tiered teams go, this might be the one to watch during the 2022 offseason.
Like location in the real-estate world, timing is everything in NBA free agency. A summer bristling with both difference-making free agents and gobs of cap space is basketball's version of an oceanfront estate.
Most NBA trades surface at the end of a trail of bread crumbs. Follow the right rumblings, and you'll be keyed in on some portion of the transaction, if not the entire swap. Every now and then, though, the basketball gods cook up a stunner.