The end of the school year comes with one last test of a student’s mettle: finals week. For teachers, finals week coincided with a mountain of grading standing between us and summer break. While this week of testing is nobody’s favorite, finals are supposed to be a good reflection of a student’s acumen throughout the year. It was pretty rare to have a “C” student show up for the week of finals, completely overhaul their study habits, and fly through the week with “A’s.”
Here’s the thing about the NBA version of finals week: Your performance in the postseason can render everything that happened in the regular season moot.