The first round’s officially in the books as the Hawks closed out the Bucks at home in Game 7, which means eight teams are one step closer to their ultimate goal of becoming NBA champions.
If you thought the playoffs had gotten tougher, more physical, and more intense so far…you ain’t seen nothing yet. As teams progress closer to the promised land of an NBA title, the “playoff fouls” will only get harder, the stakes will continue getting higher, and the NBA’s superstar will show their true form.
In the East, we ended up with the highly predictable Cleveland-Boston and Orlando-Atlanta series that appeared all-but-certainties when the first round schedules came out. These four teams clearly separated themselves from the rest of the East during the regular season, and worked past overmatched foes in the first round.
In the anything-goes West, where an first-round upset was a virtual guarantee, we ended up with what L.A. Times columnist Bill Plaschke dubbed an intermission, and a Suns-Spurs matchup that seems to happen at some point in the playoffs every year recently.
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