What the Miami Heat are doing in the playoffs is extraordinary. They’re an eight seed that lost a play-in game to the Atlanta Hawks (and nearly lost to the Chicago Bulls) and then ran through the East like a hot knife through butter.
The Denver Nuggets are on the opposite end of that. They were the one seed out West for most of the season and have looked the part in taking down the star-studded (albeit banged up) Suns and LeBron’s Lakers.
These two teams have a couple things in common.