Something not everyone feels like watching/playing all summer long, during the most
casual time of year there is. The way things were done before the pandemic, where the finals ended a month before late
July was good enough, since it was good enough from the creation of the league roughly until the pandemic. There
never needed to be an extra month of basketball, where a few people keep changing schedules and games until the team they want to see win finally does.
By late
June, people have watched enough basketball, there's no good reason for it to continue a month longer. It doesn't create fatigue for anybody, it's aggravation at a
casual time of year not meant for excessive levels of aggravation, and the aggravation is there no matter what
team gets the championship. Late summer isn't basketball time because it never was.