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Oklahoma City playing at home in the playoffs is about as close to a lock as there is in the NBA.
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Oklahoma City playing at home in the playoffs is about as close to a lock as there is in the NBA.
So much for prevailing thought. The Celtics went into this series feeling that they had a pretty good shot at taking out the No. 2-seed Knicks.
Besides and Act of Congress, an Act of God or the Stanford band marching onto the court whenever the Heat have the ball, what will it take for the Milwaukee Bucks to make this series even remotely competitive?
The Nuggets won Game 1 of this Western Conference series with a late layup from 37-year old PG Andre Miller, who put in a great performance.
So much for the playoffs providing the Bulls with a fresh start. The 17-point beatdown that the Brooklyn Nets applied to Chicago on Saturday night in Game 1 of their playoff series was just a continuation of the struggles that the Bulls experienced over the final few weeks of the regular season.
How did it come to this?
How did the Utah Jazz have a playoff spot pretty much in hand less than two months ago, win 8 of their last 10 games, and still find themselves in must-win pickle tonight on the road against a good team that has also plenty of incentive?
Is Wednesday, April 17 the day that Dwight Howard finally grows up?
Are the Lakers ready to turn the team over to Dwight Howard?
Is Kobe Bryant, who succeeded in banishing Shaquille O’Neal from Los Angeles because Shaq was claiming too much of the spotlight, willing to play understudy to Howard when Bryant returns from his Achilles injury?
Let’s see. There’s the Heat and all that firepower.
And San Antonio, with all that experience.
Don’t forget the Thunder. Any team with Durant and Westbrook can do some damage.
All in all, it’s been one heck of a year for the Denver Nuggets, who need only a victory in one of their final two regular season games (tonight in Milwaukee or home on Wednesday against the lowly Phoenix Suns) to clinch home court advantage in the first round of the playoffs.
This one looked pretty juicy when the schedule came out last summer, but since the coach of just about every NBA playoff team has started channeling Gregg Popovich and has been sitting out stars to keep them fresh for the playoffs, Boston at Miami now has the look and feel of a September baseball game littered with minor league call-ups.
The Oklahoma City Thunder are holding a slight advantage over San Antonio as they enter the final week of the season dead spanking even at 57-21.
The Knicks are either a powerhouse team just starting to come in to its own and ready to obliterate inferior competition in the first two rounds of the playoffs before giving Miami all it can handle in the Eastern Conference finals.
With baseball season rolling, the Bruins near the top of the standings and Patriots talk helping fill what’s left of the sports talk vacuum, the Celtics have taken a back seat in Boston.
Denver’s 15-game winning streak came to an end 2½ weeks ago, and since that unexpected defeat in New Orleans the Nuggets have been dealing with injuries to their two key players.
It was always something with John Wall. Unrealistic expectations. Clowns for teammates. Lack of coaching. Injuries. Something. Now the kid is finally showing what he can do.