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When did the NBA playoffs become the sports of equivalent of Stalingrad? With yesterday’s Spurs victory, the playoffs are now officially half over. But the final regular season game happened five weeks ago from tomorrow. We still have more than one month to go. What the hell takes them so long?

The Spurs and Hornets played their sixth game on Thursday, then took off Friday, Saturday and Sunday, to play the seventh game on Monday. On top of that, the first round is almost completely unnecessary. All eight lower ranked teams won. In the second round, three of the four lower ranked teams won. The only exception was the Spurs beating the Hornets. Although the Hornets had the #2 seed, the teams had the same regular season record.

Can’t we do away with at least one round? As a point of principle, I don’t think a team with a losing record should ever be allowed to make the playoffs.

OK, rant over.

Posted by edelfenbein at May 20, 2008 10:11 AM