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After a long, difficult, and unique regular season, the NBA is finally kicking off its first-ever play-in tournament for the seventh and eighth seeds in the Western and Eastern Conference playoffs.
But while most teams are more than ready to solidify their spot in the postseason, one may just plead for some break time if they can get it: the Boston Celtics.
After another successful run last season where they reached the Eastern Conference Finals, Brad Stevens’ boys tripped on multiple roadblocks this year as they limped to a middling 36-36 record.
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The Indiana Pacers forever etched their name into the NBA history books Tuesday by winning the league’s first-ever play-in game, walloping the Charlotte Hornets 144-117. The Pacers will line up this Thursday against the Washington Wizards for the final spot in the Eastern Conference playoffs, the Wizards dropping a 118-100 decision to the Boston Celtics.
The Pacers are something of an anomaly in that despite being in the NBA, the crème de la crème of basketball worldwide, they are not the sport’s top dogs in their home state. College basketball is more popular, with Indiana and Purdue and Butler and Ball State plus others taking turns atop the higher education totem pole, yet even they pale in comparison to the overwhelming, omnipresent, universally beloved art of high school basketball. If you live in Indiana, and you go to high school which, despite the state usually dismissed as flyover country, most residents do the game is in your blood, a
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LOOK: NBA Play-In Format Could Have Helped Six Teams Make Playoffs Instead Of Lottery
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Commissioner Adam Silver wants the format to stick for good
Six lottery-bound teams from previous seasons would have benefitted from the play-in format
After the Los Angeles Lakers suffered another disappointing loss at the hands of the Toronto Raptors on Sunday, LeBron James ripped the NBA s play-in format. Whoever came up with that s - needs to be fired, the irate superstar said following a 121-114 defeat.
Ironically, if the Lakers season continues to unravel, they might have no other recourse but to depend on the play-in for their title repeat hopes.
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