The Warriors won NBA free agency. We still don’t know what the Magic and Hawks are doing

NBA free agency is not quite over yet. Luminaries like J.R. Smith, Dion Waiters and Mario Chalmers remain unsigned. Likewise, we still expect at least a few major trades to happen. (Luke Babbitt to the Heat is not exactly what we’ve been waiting on.) So consider this more of a progress report than a report card. Things can change fast in the NBA, especially in a July that’s been as wild as this one has.

With that, let’s assess what’s happened by handing out offseason awards.

Look, if you add Kevin Durant to a 73-win team that came two shots from back-to-back titles, you have won the offseason. It doesn’t matter if you lose Andrew Bogut and Festus Ezeli and replace them with Zaza Pachulia and David West. It doesn’t matter if you watch Harrison Barnes walk out that door along with top assistant Luke Walton. You win. We give up. We will assimilate. You win.

There’s no getting around the fact that at the highest levels NBA free agency is a zero sum game. The Warriors’ glory is the Thunder’s devastation. OKC should still be pretty solid next season if the team doesn’t trade Russell Westbrook. A Dion Waiters sign and trade looms as the best chance left at improving the roster, but it remains to be seen what the market for Waiters really is.

The Nets tried to nab Tyler Johnson and Allen Crabbe, two restricted free agents. It’s always fun to see teams that aren’t under consideration for the best free agents actually make restricted free agency exciting. It even appeared the Heat and Blazers respectively wouldn’t match those contract offers. But they did, and the Nets came up empty for the efforts. But in adding Jeremy Lin, Trevor Booker and a few other sleepers on smart deals, Brooklyn should be a bit better next year.

The Cavaliers are still taking selfies with Larry, as is their wont. Matthew Dellavedova and Timofey Mozgov are already gone.

The Celtics proved they could land a top free agent by coaxing Al Horford to move up the seaboard from Atlanta to Boston. The Durant lure didn’t take, but that’s okay. The Celtics should be in competition for the top defense in the league next season, still have an inordinate number of assets to use on the trade market and have a stronger pitch to make to a stronger 2017 free agent class with plenty of cap space in reserve. Boston isn’t leaping into the title conversation for next season, but the C’s are well-poised to be there sooner than you think.

Oof. Dallas decided early on that Chandler Parsons wasn’t a max player, then Mike Conley -- the Mavericks’ top target -- decided to apparently team up with Parsons in free agency. So the Grizzlies managed to keep Conley and bring in Parsons, leaving the Mavericks to go to Plan B. Plan B was Harrison Barnes on a max contract and a year of Andrew Bogut. That ... that didn’t work out too well. (I do like the Dwight Powell deal and re-signing Deron Williams for one year is a nice hedge.)

The most spoken sentence of July: “What are the Orlando Magic doing?” Orlando traded two assets for Serge Ibaka on draft day (a lottery pick and Victor Oladipo), then signed Bismack Biyombo in free agency. How much shot blocking does one team need? The Magic are about to find out. More inexplicable are the one-year rental on Jeff Green (a one-year deal that doesn’t grant Bird rights or allow you to trade him midseason without consent) and a fat little deal for D.J. Augustin despite the presence of C.J. Watson on the roster. Oh, and a huge contract for Evan Fournier. I mean, in theory this could work. Ibaka is talented and Biyombo is a really good defender. But there is just a huge potential for young players being miscast (hello, Aaron Gordon!) and a bigger potential for a bottom-five offense, especially with defensive whiz Frank Vogel running the show.

And then there are the Atlanta Hawks. I was more confused about what they were doing before I read Zach Lowe explain the situation. So I encourage you to check that out. I still consider myself “quite flummoxed” by the Hawks’ actions just on principle. But hey, it’s Dennis Schroder’s show now!

The Heat always make it interesting. Letting Dwyane Wade really explore free agency and then finally waving goodbye? Kudos.

Hey, the Bulls did stuff. A common critique of the Bulls is that they don’t do anything. So, hey! They did stuff. That stuff was a bizarre rental of a point guard with no jumper (Rajon Rondo) and a move for Wade that damages the Bulls’ 2017 free agency opportunities, pushes Jimmy Butler out of position and gives the NBA its new worst-shooting backcourt. Maybe they were better off doing nothing?

It never felt like the Spurs were truly in the Durant sweepstakes; perhaps that bid actually ended back when KD and Westbrook ended San Antonio’s season. Without a real shot at Durant or Conley, there wasn’t really much opportunity for the Spurs in this pitched July. So they will largely run back the same squad without Tim Duncan and David West, and with Pau Gasol in their place. That adds a touch of offense in place of defense, which is the right direction for a team already in the title conversation.

But what really makes the Spurs losers this summer isn’t anything they did. It’s the further development of the juggernaut in the Bay. A tough job just got tougher.

You’d like to give the Clippers that same benefit of the doubt, that as a team relatively capped out and forced to focus on their own free agents, they lose only because the Warriors got so much stronger. But the Clippers traded a pick for Jeff Green and then watched him walk away for nothing months later. You played yourself again, GM Doc. If you’re not careful, Coach Doc is going to try to usurp you in a power play.

The Blazers made the second round of the playoffs and were a 4-seed the year prior. Their eligibility as a sleeper is questionable. I don’t care, I don’t care, I don’t care. Now that they’ve matched the Crabbe offer sheet, re-signed Meyers Leonard and added Evan Turner and Festus Ezeli, I am all the way in. Turner should be a sixth man on this team; in fact, it’d be interesting to see Terry Stotts experiment with both Turner and Crabbe off the bench (despite their hefty price tags) if Moe Harkless (if he stays) and Al-Farouq Aminu can offer additional defense as the starting forwards. But then Turner starting could let Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum work off the ball a bit more -- I don’t care. This roster is absurdly deep and Stotts proved a master at mixing and matching last season. I can’t wait for the Blazers!

The Jazz won’t be as exciting aesthetically, but that roster is getting better every year. I don’t expect much out of Boris Diaw at this point, but the frontcourt needs no help. It’s at the guard positions -- and especially point guard -- where Utah lacked depth. So replacing Trey Burke with George Hill and adding Joe Johnson to the mix? Lovely! We should have a top-five defense and an improved offense (that still isn’t totally pretty) here. Playoffs, here we come.

The Pelicans cannot be considered a sleeper in the West until they fix that bizarre frontcourt. (Seriously, you have Anthony Davis. It shouldn’t be that hard to find a center or power forward to complement him.) But New Orleans signed two big sleeper free agents in Solomon Hill and E’Twaun Moore, so some credit is deserved for that.

Adding a post-injury Derrick Rose and a creaky Joakim Noah? That’s so Knicks. To be frank, though, the Knicks almost disqualified themselves by signing Courtney Lee and Brandon Jennings. Too solid. The Chicago Bulls are making a late sprint for this hardware.

Two awful teams who should be better next season due to incremental moves. The Sixers will make a bigger jump thanks to Dario Saric, The Legend Sergio Rodriguez, Gerald Henderson and of course Ben Simmons. (And perhaps Joel Embiid. Knock on [Christian] Wood.) But the Sixers have further to go. The Lakers can count on big improvement from D’Angelo Russell (point guards need a year, and Russell has the stuff) plus an infusion of professionalism from Luol Deng and competent center play from Timofey Mozgov (even at a crushing price). Competence is a big step up for these teams, and we’re getting there!

The preseason League Pass champion pick ... depending on what happens at point guard. In the interest of winning games, Mike D’Antoni should absolutely go with Patrick Beverley. But you know he’s at least thinking about moving James Harden there and starting Eric Gordon with Corey Brewer, Trevor Ariza and Clint Capela. Harden is basically the eternal point guard of this team anyways: just do it. Do it, Mike D. Justify all of this and do it.