It’s impossible to ignore what’s right in front of us, the NBA chose to follow through with the shortest offseason in league history (71 days), and now we’re witnessing a postseason where numerous stars and high usage/minutes players have gone down with injuries of varying severity. Correlation is not causation, but it certainly doesn’t feel like much of a leap to connect the dots. Some of these injuries would’ve happened either way, the shortened offseason didn’t have much do to with LeBron James and Kyrie Irving spraining their ankles, but nonetheless you get my point.
With that disclaimer in hand, the on-court product has still been pretty fun through the first several weeks of the playoffs.