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Originally Posted by Hockey_Ninja
I'm happy for Horford, White and Jrue. That's it lol
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Agreed. Happy for those three winning, but a boring finals to cap off a lacklustre NBA season. Maybe the NBA really needs Lakers/LeBron or Warriors/Steph making deep runs to make compelling television?
.... or it's more likely injury/load management related. The Celtics had probably the easiest run to a title I have ever seen. They beat three banged up teams in the (much) weaker conference, and had trouble in getting past them. Then they had good fortune in facing the 5th seed Mavericks. I know they can only beat who is put in front of them, but I think deep down we all know if they had played a quality opponent like Denver things would have played out differently.
The NBA (and NHL for that matter) seriously needs to consider changing their playoff format. For my money the Celtics were the only contender out East, meanwhile in the West there were many. The Knicks finished 2nd (50-32), the Warriors were 10th (46-36). Who is the better team there? I'd say 2-10 are all better than the second seed in the East (and pretty much all the way down from 3-10). They need to fix the playoffs to avoid having another awful playoffs.