With just one day left in the NBA’s 2022-23 regular season, we aren’t exactly witnessing the best that the league has to offer. The majority of teams have already locked in Playoff/Play-In spots at this late stage, allowing star players to rest ahead of the postseason, which begins in the middle of this coming week. On the flip side, the last few days of the regular season are also an opportunity for bad teams to look even worse in the standings with hopes of improving draft odds.
But Saturday — the second to last day of the regular season — actually featured some thrilling basketball from the perspective of the Big Blue Nation.