The NBA season is long enough to make you question everything you thought you knew about the NBA season. Which, in many ways, is the purpose of the NBA playoffs. The NCAA tournament is a hallucinogenic; the NBA playoffs are Xanax. What makes this year’s NBA playoffs interesting is why those teams are winning. It was a perfect encapsulation of this NBA season that began in October with an opening night schedule of two games: Celtics vs. Cavaliers and Rockets vs. Warriors.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 07, 2018 15:28 UTC