A side issue here is calling to blow it up and tank if a team doesn't win a ring in their first 2 playoff runs.
Nuggets won first title in 5th straight playoff appearance, Bucks 5th, Raptors 6th.
Celtics 2024 title was their 10th straight playoff appearance.
Hardwood Paroxysm@HPbasketball
The best thing we can do as an online community of NBA fans is normalize the idea that non-title success matters. Making a Final Four is a real accomplishment. Winning 60 games is awesome no matter how the playoffs turn out. Winning 50 games is a good season. Making the second round IS playoff success. Everything that is creating problems for the quality of games that isn't the league's absolutely asinine schedule in the face of changes to play are caused by a root idea that everything short of the title is a failure.
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