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Originally Posted by getbak
The Finals were ridiculously long this year. It shouldn't take 17 days to play a 7 game series.
I remember back in the 80s and 90s, except in rare cases, the Conferences played their games on alternating nights during the first three rounds, then the Finals were played every other night and the whole thing was wrapped up in 8 weeks -- 2 weeks per round.
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In the 80s teams would play games 1 and 2 back to back, then take a day off and play games 3 and 4 back to back before taking a day off between games 5, 6, and 7. This was the first round then it would be every other day of rounds 2-4.
First round in 1989. 7 games in 11 days. That’s a grind.