May 31, 2018
All it took was three weeks for the NBA Playoffs to finally arrive. Sure we had some Playoff teams playing some Playoff games, but throughout the first two rounds, we barely got anything resembling an actual competitive Playoff series. But along came the Conference Finals, the upstart Celtics hosting the King and...
May 24, 2018
Over the past few weeks we’ve wondered where the drama has gone. The NBA Playoffs have been fun, sure, but anticlimactic as well, and the Conference Finals had been completely bereft of close games, as the Celtics took a quick 2-0 lead on the Cavs, while the Warriors and Rockets exchanged blowouts and home court...
May 18, 2018
Like I said last week, what the NBA Playoffs have lacked in drama has been made up in spectacular individual showcases, and with the Conference Finals matchups, it looked like we’d finally get the close games and series drama we’d been waiting for. But as the Celtics easily dismantled the Cavs in GM 1 then put the...
May 13, 2018
We got a few Game 7’s in Round 1 of the NBA Playoffs, but it was more individual star showcases in individual games than series drama that provided the excitement, as we watched precocious rookies Ben Simmons, Jayson Tatum and Donovan Mitchell learning on the fly and witnessed the King rise to reclaim his crown....
May 3, 2018
The first round of the NBA Playoffs is in the books, and with competitive selection weeding out the non-contenders, those teams remaining are in elite company. You have the defending champion Warriors, now intact with the return of Steph Curry, still prohibitive favorites to repeat according to Vegas odds, but...