On Mar. 11, the National Basketball Association (NBA), suspended their season in the wake of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic. The big question was would the 2019-20 campaign be canceled completely or could they find a way to resume? A way was found and there will a finish to what was shaping to be one of the best NBA seasons in a long time.
In a vote of 29-1 on Thursday, the NBA’s Board of Governors approved as competitive of a format as they could muster to restart the 2019-20 campaign with 22 of the 30 squads returning on July 31 at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Campus in Orlando, FL.
The plan was then approved late Friday afternoon by the Board of Player Representatives of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA).
“The Boards approval of the restart format is a necessary step toward resuming the NBA season,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said at the close of this week. “While the COVID-19 Pandemic presents formidable challenges, we are hopeful of finishing the season in a safe and responsible manner based on strict protocols now being finalize with public health officials and medical experts.”
Even with both sides approving to the terms of the restart to the season, there are still a number of details that still need to be negotiated and accepting all the scenarios and issues that are relevant to play being able to resume.
Among the things to be worked out before play resumes include the final specifications on how the players will be tested for COVID-19 and the calculation of the financial ramifications of playing fewer games than the normal 82-game schedule.
According to person who spoke with the “Associated Press” the details of those ongoing talks between the NBPA and the NBA have not been released to the public, but they are working out “lengthy” set of medical protocols with public health experts and government officials on establishing a rigorous program for all the 22 squads and support staff to follow in preventing and mitigating anyone having the coronavirus, which would consists of everyone getting regularly tested and establishing stringent safety practices.
According to NBA Senior writer Shams Charania of “The Athletic and Stadium,” the NBA is still deciding on the kind of testing they will have the players take from either saliva, the evasive nasal swab, or the tip of the nose test.
Charania also said that the players will likely be showering after games back at the hotel and not at the arenas of play. Bench players sitting in rows instead one long sideline, and inactive players being put in the stands.
Then there is the detail of how the constructions of the rosters of them possibly being shortened where players on two-way contracts would not be allowed to be on the playoff roster or signing players.
Perhaps the one big change with the restart of this season to be in one location is this advantage the higher seeds in each conference will experience in not having home court advantage, which means those capacity crowds that bring an intensity that gets the home team over the hump, especially in a Game 7 of a playoff series.
Some of those top-seeded teams like the Lakers, Bucks and Raptors according to ESPN’s Dave McMenamin have come up with ways reproduce having homecourt advantage like the higher-seeded team getting possession to begin the second and fourth quarters; designate one player for seven fouls instead of six; receive an extra coaches challenge; transport their actual hardwood home court from their home arena to the game site in Orlando, FL; or pick the hotel they will stay in.
NBATV analyst and Hall of Famer Kevin McHale said that the teams with a very “high IQ” will have a “big” advantage over the teams that rely on repetition under this format to finish out this season.
“The value of being a high IQ player, which is always there. High IQ players always do better, and high IQ teams always do better,” McHale, who along with fellow Hall of Famer Larry Bird led the Celtics to three titles in the 1980s said. “But it’s really going to be important in this setting that we’re looking at coming up.”
Those details will be given to the 22 teams following the completion of those discussions long before their arrival at Disney the person said also.
“While there is still work to be done, we applaud all the effort and collaboration that has one into finding a safe, competitive format,” Orlando Magic CEO Alex Martins said. “It has always been our feeling that sports have the ability to bring people together and we look forward to restarting the NBA season while using that platform to drive meaningful social impact at this period of time.”
If those details can be ironed out, the 22 teams arrive at Disney around July 7 and play an eight-game slate starting as mentioned from July 31-Aug. 14. All the teams will be housed, practice, and compete at the ESPN’s Sports Campus all the way to the NBA Finals, which would have begun this past Thursday if not for the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The First-Round of the 2020 NBA Playoffs would be from Aug. 17-29. The Semifinals would go from Aug. 31-Sept 12. The Conference Finals would be from Sept. 14-27. The 2020 NBA Finals would go from Sept. 29-Oct. 11.
Along with putting together a plan to conclude the 2019-20 NBA season, the NBA also set some dates for next season, which include scheduling the draft lottery on Aug. 25, the 2020 NBA Draft on Oct. 15 and a tentative date for said start of the 2020-21 season on Dec. 1.
There was also the announcement Thursday that remainder of the G League season was canceled.
The eight-game slate to restart the season, which remains unclear if there classification will be determined as regular season contests will determine the seedings for the postseason.
The teams from the Eastern Conference that will be headed to Orlando are the eight squads currently in playoff position in the Milwaukee Bucks (53-12-No. 1 Seed), Toronto Raptors (46-18-No. 2 Seed), Boston Celtics (43-21-No. 3 Seed), Miami Heat (41-24-No. 4 Seed), Indiana Pacers (39-26-No. 5 Seed), Philadelphia 76ers (39-26-No. 6 Seed), Brooklyn Nets (30-34-No. 7 Seed), Orlando Magic (30-35-No. 8 Seed) and the No. 9 Seeded Washington Wizards (24-40), who are on the outside of the playoff picture.
The eight teams from Western Conference in playoff position heading to Orlando are the Los Angeles Lakers (49-14-No. 1 Seed), Los Angeles Clippers (44-20-No. 2 Seed), Denver Nuggets (43-22-No. 3 Seed), Utah Jazz (41-23-No. 4 Seed), Oklahoma City Thunder (40-24-No. 5 Seed), Houston Rockets (40-24-No. 6 Seed), Dallas Mavericks (40-27-No. 7 Seed) and the Memphis Grizzlies (32-33-No. 8 Seed).
Also headed to Orlando from the Western Conference are five squads within striking distance of the postseason in the Portland Trail Blazers (29-37-No. 9 Seed), New Orleans Pelicans (28-36-No. 10 Seed), Sacramento Kings (28-36-No. 11 Seed), San Antonio Spurs (27-36-No. 12 Seed) and the Phoenix Suns (26-39-No. 13 Seed).
The eight squads that will not be in Orlando for the restart from the East were the Charlotte Hornets (23-42), Chicago Bulls (22-43), New York Knicks (21-45), Detroit Pistons (20-46), Atlanta Hawks (20-47), and Cleveland Cavaliers (19-46). From the West, the Minnesota Timberwolves (19-45) and the four-time defending Western Conference champion Golden State Warriors (15-50).
For the Knicks, they will miss the playoffs for the seventh straight spring, the third longest current playoff drought in the league behind the likely 14 in a row by the Kings and the 10 straight by the Suns, who are still in the mix to make the playoffs.
“While we are disappointed for our team and our fans that our season is coming to an end, we understand and accept the league’s plan to move forward with 22 teams,” Timberwolves President of Basketball Operations Gersson Rosas said. “It is important that we be a good teammate not only to the NBA, but to the other 29 teams to support the efforts to complete this season and prepare for next season in a healthy and safe manner.”
This also means that future Hall of Famer Vince Carter’s has played all but likely played his last game of a remarkable 22-year career in the NBA, the longest for an individual player in NBA history.
If the Mar. 11 136-131 overtime loss by the Hawks versus the Knicks, the night when the league suspended the season is the last game for Carter, he will finish his career having played 1,541 regular season games, trailing only Robert Parish at 1,611 and Hall of Famer and six-time NBA champion Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at 1,560. He is also the first player in NBA history to play in four different decades.
“Put 22 in the books by the amount of years Vince Carter played in the NBA, and leave it,” Carter’s cousin and teammate for two years with the Toronto Raptors Tracy McGrady, now an NBA studio analyst for ESPN said on Friday’s edition of ESPN’s “NBA: The Jump.”
“It is over. Cuz has had a phenomenal Hall of Fame career. And I talked to him about a week or two ago. He’s happy. He has three kids. He’s satisfied. He wants to be on the golf course. He wants to raise his kids, and he wants to come and do television.”
While total number of games played amongst the 22-team field coming to Orlando will vary, most of the teams will have played 72 or 73 games after the eight-game “seeded games” are included to their regular-season games played.
If this eight-game schedule to close the season can be done with no hiccups, the Mavericks and Spurs would play the most amount of games for the regular-season at 75, with the Lakers playing the least amount at 71 contests.
Under the restart format, the seven respective squads with the best records (regular-season games and the eight seeding games) would punch their ticket to the postseason, with the usual tie-breaking scenarios like better record against each other; better record against +.500 or sub .500 teams; and better record against eligible playoff squads in your conference or opposing conference would also be in place for seeding No. 1 through No. 7.
The Bucks, Lakers, Celtics and reigning defending champion Raptors had already secured their spots in the postseason before the season was paused. With eight games remaining once the season does restart, the Heat, Pacers, 76ers, Clippers, Nuggets, Jazz, Thunder and Rockets have all but locked up their spots in the postseason and the Mavericks have virtually secured their spot in the playoffs as well.
Raptors President Masai Ujiri said told host Rachel Nichols on ESPN’s “NBA: The Jump” on Wednesday prior to the Board of Governors vote on the format to restart the season on Thursday that he is “excited.”
“I just feel that sports unites people,” Ujiri added. “It brings people together. It makes us happy. And I did not know how much I missed it until I saw how many people have reacted to missing it, right?”
“So, you know, we have to respect what’s going on with the pandemic. With this thing going on now, we can’t forget the health aspect of this. And I think Adam has done an incredible job of just going through the process and making sure we have all these things right before we get to this.”
“The game has to come back in some kind of way. And me as a fan of the game, as somebody that works in the game, I just love pro sports because it brings us all together.”
That leaves nine teams vying for the final three slots for the playoffs, particularly for the No. 8 and final position in both conferences, where four teams are fighting for that one spot in the Western Conference.
If the current occupier of the No. 8 Seed in the East in the Magic and the Grizzlies in the West finish four games or more in front of the team with No. 9 Seed, which the Wizards and the Trail Blazers in the East and West respectively are currently, the Magic and Grizzlies will earn those final playoffs spots.
If the Magic and Grizzlies finish four games or fewer ahead of the Wizards and Trail Blazers, then a best-of-two play-in tournament will take place from Aug. 15-16, which would be single-elimination for the No. 9 Seed and double-elimination for the No. 8 Seed to determine who gets that last spot.
That will also be the case for the Magic and Wizards if that is the scenario after this eight-game finish to this season.
At the moment, the Magic are 5.5 games up on the Wizards for that No. 8 and final playoff spot in the East.
Another team that might factor into this outcome are the aforementioned No. 7 Seeded Nets, even though they have a six-game cushion over the No. 9 Seeded Wizards.
“There is still much work to be done, but we are excited to be able to return to the court,” Wizards General Manager Tommy Shepard said.
It is more likely that this play-in tournament might take place in the Western Conference because the No. 8 Seeded Grizzlies are up just 3.5 games on the Trail Blazers, Pelicans, and Kings for that last playoff spot. They do have a little bit of a cushion of four and six games respectably on the Spurs and Suns.
Along with that complication, there is a level of intrigue because each of these five teams has something at stake, which is something according to NBA Senior writer Shams Charania of “The Athletic” and “The Stadium” that Commissioner Silver and the NBA league office in communicating with all the constituencies from the ownership level, GM level and team level after months of planning that they were confident in their presentation of this plan to the Board Governors of this being the best course of action to give all those involved the best chance to make a run for that last playoff spot in the East and West.
At the start of this season, no one predicted that the Grizzlies would be in the stratosphere of contending for a playoff berth.
After a 6-16 start, the Grizzlies won 22 of their next 32 games, including an 8-2 mark during a 10-game stretch from Jan. 24-Feb. 12 to put themselves at 28-26 and right into the playoff picture in the rugged Western Conference. A five-game losing streak though gave the likes of the Trail Blazers and Pelicans hope of catching them in the case to be in the postseason.
The Grizzlies did right the ship winning four of six before the league suspended play and will enter the restart in the lead for that final playoff spot.
They are in this position because of the stellar play of leading candidate for Kia Rookie of the Year in lead guard Ja Morant and fellow rookie forward Brandon Clarke; the growth of second-year forward Jaren Jackson, Jr., guard Dillon Brooks, and De’Anthony Melton and the consistent inside play on both ends from Jonas Valanciunas.
For the Trail Blazers, last season’s Western Conference runner-up has dealt with a lot of adversity this season from injuries and inconsistent play from everyone outside of their starting backcourt of perennial All-Star Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum and starting center Hassan Whiteside, a top candidate for Kia Defensive Player of the Year.
They were without starting center Jusuf Nurkic right up to the imposed suspension by the NBA because of the aforementioned Coronavirus because of a broken leg sustained back in Mar. 2019. They lost two big time players in their rotation earlier this season in swingman Rodney Hood to a season-ending Achilles injury and big man Zach Collins due to shoulder surgery.
In need of some kind of spark, the Trail Blazers in the middle of November 2019 brought in 10-time All-Star Carmelo Anthony, and he provided that missing third consistent scorer to go alongside Lillard and McCollum, and they made a deal in late January for veteran forward Trevor Ariza, who has provided veteran experience, a knockdown shooter and perimeter defensive ace.
Of all the teams that were the most vocal of not wanting to come back if they did not have a serious chance to compete for a playoff spot was the Trail Blazers, who were that one no-vote of the Governors on restarting the season.
Lillard said to Jalen Rose and David Jacoby on the May 27 edition of ESPN’s “Jalen & Jacoby” that he did not want to play in the league’s restart if they were not going to be competing to get into the playoffs when he made the comment a few weeks ago about not playing in “meaningless games,” and the risk of contracting the COVID-19 virus.
Lillard said specifically that he will not play unless his team had a “true” chance at making the playoffs.
“There’s so many things out there that, you know, wen could be at risk of,” the five-time All-Star said. “So, I mean, if were going to do it, obviously as players we want to play but we want to play for something, especially if we were in position to play for that in the first place.”
With the possible return of Nurkic and Collins paired with the motivation of Lillard with something to play for now, and a motivated Anthony, the Trail Blazers will have that legitimate chance at making the postseason once play resumes at the end of next month.
For the New Orleans Pelicans, they are in position to make a run at the playoffs because of the return of Zion Williamson, the No. 1 overall pick in last June’s NBA Draft.
The Kia Rookie of the year candidate missed the first 44 games of this season because of knee surgery and without him on the floor this season, the Pelicans have gone just 18-27.
In the 19 games Williamson has played, the Pelicans have gone 10-9 and he has played extremely well since coming back averaging 23.6 points and 6.8 rebounds, which leads all rookies on 58.9 percent shooting from the floor.
What this moment above means for this young crew of Williamson, Brandon Ingram, Lonzo Ball, Josh Hart, and Frank Jackson, and rookies Jaxson Hayes, Nicolo Melli and Nickeil Alexander-Walker is a chance to play in meaningful games down the stretch of a season where it seemed like all was lost for the Pelicans when they lost a franchise record 13 straight games from Nov. 23-Dec. 17, 2019.
Before the league had its hiatus because of the aforementioned global pandemic, the Pelicans according to Charania had the easiest run to make that No. 8 and final playoff spot because of their schedule down the stretch.
They now should feel especially good about their chances of getting that final spot, especially with veteran leadership from big man Derrick Favors and guards Jrue Holiday and JJ Redick, whose streak of 13 straight postseason appearance is on the line.
Being in the playoffs is something that the Sacramento Kings have not done since 2006, currently the owners of the longest streak of missing the playoffs at 13 consecutive seasons.
They put themselves in prime position a season ago to end that drought, but their inability to win games down the stretch of last season had them on the outside looking in again.
Their hopes of really being in the playoff mix this season were not promising after lead guard De’Aaron Fox, sharp-shooter Bogdan Bogdanovic, and second-year Marvin Bagley III missed a chunk of time this season because of injury and that fellow sharp-shooter Buddy Hield has had his highs and lows shooting wise for much of this season.
In fact, Hield was demoted to coming off the bench by first-year head coach Luke Walton after he complained about his playing time and the lack of trust shown in him.
The vibe was so rocky that center Dewayne Dedmon asked to be traded after signing with the Kings in the offseason.
A major part of the Kings turnaround was the acquisition of guard Kent Bazemore and forward Anthony Tolliver from the Trail Blazers on January 21, who provided some veteran leadership to a young team in much need of it.
They shipped Dedmon to the Hawks in return for center Alex Len and forward Jabari Parker.
They also got Richaun Holmes back before the league suspension from a shoulder injury that had him on the shelf for a little over a quarter of this season.
While their chances are pretty slim of breaking the longest current playoff drought in “The Association,” the Kings have what a lot of people want in life, a chance.
Fox, Hield, Bogdanovic, Holmes, possibly Bagley III and Nemanja Bijelica have a chance to help the Kings to have a better finish to their season than a year ago and end this long playoff drought. Those chances will be even great if they get some serious scoring punch from the one player with championship experience in forward Harrison Barnes.
If there is one team that is happy for this restart to the season with a chance at making the playoffs is the five-time NBA champion Spurs, who have made the playoffs for 22 straight seasons, which is tied for the longest in NBA history with the Syracuse Nationals/76ers.
That streak, which began during the era of future Hall of Famer Tim Duncan when he was picked No. 1 overall in the 1996 draft was in serious jeopardy of ending this season, especially since the Spurs have gone 23-35 since a 4-1 start to this season.
To put how things have gone for the head coach Gregg Popovich’s team up to their last game before play was suspended, they had a 1-10 mark during an 11-game stretch from Nov. 9-29, 2019, which included an eight-game losing streak from Nov. 9-23, 2019, the longest losing streak for the team during the Popovich era.
Since that 1-10 mark though, the Spurs have gone 21-23 since. While it is a record not to write home about, it showed the no quit attitude that has been a big part of the Spurs culture under Coach “Pop.”
It also helps when you have perennial All-Stars in DeMar DeRozan and LaMarcus Aldridge as the mainstays who have a lot of pride and are used to being in the postseason conversation.
The Spurs showed that mental focus last postseason where their opening-round tilt against the Nuggets went to the limit and the series was right there for the taking before the Nuggets made a couple of late plays down the stretch to win that quarterfinals series in seven games.
The Spurs when they resume play though will be without Aldridge as had a surgical procedure recently on the rotator cuff of his right shoulder.
"Disappointed I won't get to finish the season with my teammates, but excited that I'll be fully ready to go next season and beyond," Aldridge said on his Twitter page.
Aldridge, according to NBA.com's senior writer Michael C. Wright sustained that injury to his shoulder Feb. 23 in the Spurs' 113-104 win at the Jazz and did not return until the Spurs' 119-109 win versus the Mavericks on TNT scoring 24 points on 10 for 23 shooting with four blocks and three steals.
"So, when the hiatus hit, when the league suspended the season, internally the Spurs thought that, 'You know, hey if we put him through rehab and keep him working out that, you know, he can sort of work that shoulder back into the shape it needs to be in for him to compete,'" Wright said.
"But, you know, as they got further and further into the hiatus, they sort of realized that, 'Hey we got to put him on the shelf.' And then, you got to also realize the Spurs were like 3.5 games back of that eight seed. So they are going to have to play almost flawlessly just to get a shot at that play-in game."
That means the likes of Bryn Forbes, Dejounte Murray, Derrick White, Trey Lyles, Lonnie Walker IV, and Jakob Poeltl will have to raise their level of play to make for the loss of Aldridge, while also getting even more from their veterans like Patty Mills, Rudy Gay and Marco Bellinelli.
A decade ago, the Phoenix Suns were in fighting the then late Kobe Bryant led Lakers for the Western Conference crown. The then Hall of Fame led Steve Nash and Grant Hill Suns lost that series in six games and have not been back to the postseason since.
There was a glimmer of hope early in the season that they possibly could end the second longest current postseason drought in the league and the longest in franchise history, which stands currently at nine straight seasons.
Those hopes took a major hit when second-year big man Deandre Ayton was suspended 25 games by the NBA for 25 games on Oct. 24, 2019 after testing positive for a diuretic, which violated the league’s anti-drug policy.
Without Ayton, first-year head coach Monty Williams squad produced a mark of 10-15.
Along with Ayton, forward Kelly Oubre, Jr., sharp-shooting rookie Cameron Johnson and big-men Frank Kaminsky, Dario Saric and Aron Baynes, and guard Ricky Rubio have missed a total of 96 games because of injury. They will not have Oubre Jr. or Kaminsky once play resumes as they will finish this season on the shelf because of season-ending surgeries on their respective ailments.
That will put more of a heavy burden on Ayton and leading scorer at 26.1 points per game in first-time All-Star guard Devin Booker.
As important as Booker as well as Ayton is to the Suns success, the main key to measure their chances of winning a game this season is the assists number by Rubio.
When Rubio registers 10 or more assists in a game this season, the Suns are 15-8. If he registers under 10 assists, the Suns are just 11-31.
The other key stat that has measured the Suns success this season is if they are ahead after three quarters this season. When that happens, the Suns are 23-6 and just 3-33 when they trail after three quarters this season.
It seems unlikely that the Suns will be in position to be in the play-in tournament if they are within four games or less when the eight-game close to the season restarts.
But like for the Kings and Pelicans, this serves as a chance for the Suns to play meaningful basketball with a shot at ending their playoff drought.
For the NBA, having the play-in tournament as part of their restart serves as the chance to bring some excitement and as mentioned intrigue at the end of this different regular season where just about 15 percent of what would have been a full regular season will not be played, which will result in the players losing out at around $600 million in salary.
For all that has happened in our world the nearly three months from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic to the high numbers in protest against police brutality, especially in the latest one that led to the death of 47-year-old George Floyd at the start of last week, our nation has needed something to look forward to.
The fact that the NBA has gotten to a point where it has worked to position itself to restart it season and be able to crown an NBA champion is the good news we have been waiting for.
Our country has been in need of something to cheer for and the NBA if it can hammer out all the remaining necessary actions to resume its season, we will have something to watch on television that will give us something to root for. A chance to crown an NBA champion.
While somethings to get to this point may not be fair in the eyes of many, the fact that one of the four major sports in the U.S. worked and worked to get to the point it can finish its season amidst all that is happening is something to be proud of and something that can provide an escape from what we are dealing with for a moment.
“The bigger picture is, guess what, we got basketball back,” Los Angeles Sparks forward, Vice President of the Women’s National Basketball Players Association and ESPN basketball analyst Chiney Ogwumike said. “Things will not be fair. We found the safest way to include as many teams as possible, even though some are disadvantaged. And we’ve gotten the stars back, even if you think about maybe Zion [Williamson], Damian Lillard.”
“Those were questions that needed to be answered just a few days ago, and we’re trying to bring basketball back the best way, even though it’s not necessarily the best scenario for it.”
Information, statistics, and quotations are courtesy of 3/10/2020 scores from www.nba.com; 3/11/2020 1 a.m. ESPN news crawl and “Sportscenter” from Los Angeles with Neil Everett and Stan Verrett; 3/11/2020 1 a.m. NBA on TNT Tuesday Postgame Show with Adam Lefkoe, Shaquille O’Neal, Candace Parker, and Dwyane Wade; 4/8/2020 6 a.m. edition of NBATV’s “Gametime,” with Casey Stern and Grant Hill; 4/28/2020 7 p.m. edition of NBATV’s “Gametime,” with Stephanie Ready, Brian Shaw, and Jim Jackson; 6/3/2020 3 p.m. edition of ESPN’s “NBA: The Jump,” with Rachel Nichols, Chiney Ogwumike, and Brian Windhorst; 6/3/2020 8 p.m. edition of NBATV’s “Gametime,” with Chris Miles and Greg Anthony, with report from “The Athletic and Stadium’s” NBA Senior writer Shams Charania; 6/4/2020 www.nba.com story, “Everything You Need To Know About The 2019-20 NBA Season Restart;” 6/5/2020 www.nba.com story, “NBPA Approves Further Negotiations With NBA On 22-Team Format For Season Restart;” 6/5/2020 www.nba.com story, “NBA Board of Governors Approves 22-Team Restart of 2019-20 Season,” by Tim Reynolds of “The Associated Press;” 6/5/2020 3 p.m. edition of ESPN’s “NBA: The Jump,” with Rachel Nichols, Kendrick Perkins, and Tracy McGrady; 6/5/2020 8 p.m. edition of NBATV’s “Gametime,” with Jared Greenberg and Kevin McHale; 6/9/2020 8 p.m. edition of NBATV's "Gametime," with Casey Stern and Grant Hill, with report from NBA.com's senior writer Michael C. Wright; https://www.nba.com/2019-20-trade-tracker; https://www.espn.com/nba/standings; https://www.espn.com/nba/team/schedule/_/name/mem; https://www.espn.com/nba/team/stats/_/name/phx; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki?Deandre_Ayton#2019-20_season; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NBA_franchise_post-season_droughts; and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_Of-NBA_franchise_post-season_streaks#NBA_Playoffs.
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