Understand, this is a year from when it all happened.
Jimmy Butler joined the Miami Heat on July 6, 2019.
Kawhi Leonard signed with the Los Angeles Clippers three days later.
And the day after that, the Philadelphia 76ers backed up the dump truck for ... gulp ... Tobias Harris.
Typically, a year later, we would have definitive reads.
But now, nothing is typical.
So as we look back on the opening-week madness of 2019 NBA free agency, the reality is that weighing the merits and shortcomings of that process well could come down to the eight games to close the 2019-20 season and then the playoffs that will follow.
Quite literally bubble basketball could determine if 2019 free-agency bubbles have burst or yet could provide champagne effervesce.
In some cases, even that won't be enough, with the book to remain open for months to come on the shift of Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving to the Brooklyn Nets, or even the re-signing of Klay Thompson by the Golden State Warriors.
A look at how the NBA resumption ultimately could cast a telling perspective of the free-agency Class of 2019:
