{"id":1721,"date":"2025-07-25T09:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2025-07-25T09:04:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:04:33","slug":"nba-offseason-grades-for-every-east-team-are-knicks-bucks-among-contenders-who-aced-the-summer-who-flunked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/nba-offseason-grades-for-every-east-team-are-knicks-bucks-among-contenders-who-aced-the-summer-who-flunked\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA offseason grades for every East team: Are Knicks, Bucks among contenders who aced the summer? Who flunked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1722\" src=\"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/39012947-C79B-4DCE-8C6C-303559611F47.jpeg\" alt=\"Our offseason grades for every team in the NBA's Western Conference turned out so perfectly \u2014 without a single complaint \u2014 that we decided to be nice and give you an inarguable list of grades in the East, too. The conference took a pair of haymakers to its face in the playoffs, as the 2024 and 2025 East champion Boston Celtics and Indiana Pacers, respectively, lost Jayson Tatum and Tyrese Haliburton to torn Achilles tendons. It was already a watered-down conference that sent its sixth seed to lose to the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Finals. \" width=\"125\" height=\"70\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","wpucv-grid-three":"","wpucv-grid-two":"","wpucv-grid-one":"","wpucv-classic":"","wpucv-classic-small":"","wpucv-galary":"","covernews-slider-full":"","covernews-slider-center":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":"","covernews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"info":["vicrollion"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/category\/sport\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Sport<\/a>","tag_info":"Sport","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1746,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}