There is no reality more sobering than the Miami Heat’s 3-0 deficit to the Milwaukee Bucks in their Eastern Conference first-round playoff series. No NBA team has overcome such a deficit in the more than 140 such instances. It is the only North American major sports league without such a comeback in a best-of-seven series. And there also are few places where unsightly playoff finishes resonate .
Originally posted on RealGM | By Colin McGowan | Last updated 12/7/20
Karl-Anthony Towns is 25, about to enter his sixth NBA season and has a lot in common with Chris Webber at the same age. He’s a less interesting figure, given that Webber was a cultural icon along with the rest of the Fab Five at Michigan, but KAT shares with mid-career C-Webb mold-breaking offensive ability, a mercurial personality, and a creeping fraudulence. The numbers look good, the highlights are spectacular but his team can’t break through, and it’s beginning to read like an indictment of his capabilities as a franchise player. We hold Webber in pretty high esteem these days, but in 1998, he was sent from the Wizards to the Kings in exchange for a 33-year-old Mitch Richmond and Otis Thorpe. Don Nelson, circa then: “I really don’t know who Chris Webber is. No, I really don’t.”