The NBA’s Conference Finals kick off Tuesday, with four of the NBA’s best teams vying for a spot in the NBA Finals. All credit due to them, but the Indiana Pacers feel like they are a step or two behind the other three teams still in the equation — the NBA’s winningest team, the Boston Celtics, who will face the Pacers, and the Dallas Mavericks, led by superstar Luka Doncic, and the Minnesota Timberwolves, who just dethroned the defending champion Denver Nuggets.
Each series has an every-other-day schedule, so we are in store for nightly primetime basketball from May 21 to as late as June 3.