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The NBA playoffs can be overwhelming at first. Multiple games, every night, for multiple weeks. So much basketball, and most of it really, really good. So a four-day break in between games felt like an eon.
We finally get basketball tonight: Game 1 of the NBA Finals on ABC at 8:30 p.m. ET. We’ve talked so much about the narratives. What are we actually going to see?
I turned to Zach Harper, NBA writer and .