The NBA teams that had folks at Las Vegas Summer League asking: ‘What are they doing?’

During the NBA Las Vegas Summer League, New York Times reporter Marc Stein spoke with multiple NBA executives and staffers over an eight-day stay, finding widespread bewilderment about certain teams' offseason moves and strategies. The most frequently discussed source of confusion centered on the Kawhi Leonard situation, with executives and agents alike waiting on the outcome of the Leonard-Aspiration case, which has left some league business in limbo. The uncertainty around whether Leonard and Scottie Barnes will be teammates next season was among the top topics generating head-scratching among front office personnel.