May Madness?
May 9th, 2008, 10:15 am · 1 Comment · posted by jerrybrown
Is this the NBA playoffs or the NCAA Tournament?
Two months after all four No.1 seeds reached the final four in college basketball, what was supposed to be the most competitive NBA playoffs in history is going exactly, and boringly, along seeding lines.
The higher seeded team won all eight first-round series. The closest we had to some excitement was the Atlanta-Boston series, but even the Hawks never came within a mile of winning a game on the road — a bad thing since the Celtics had four games on their home floor.
Now we’re in the second round, and the top two seeds in each conference are in command of the four series. So much for parity. New Orleans FEELS like an upstart, but they finished second in the West. Amazing how, as jumbled as the West was this season, that it may wind of going down in order. Of course, that leaves the Celtics and the Lakers in the NBA Finals, which means we’ll get to watch more stories and highlights of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird than Pau Gasol and Ray Allen.
