Very nice.
I remember a tennis player who had the rare path where he was going to have to go through Federer, Djokovic, and Nadal.
I forget who, but he actually made it past one or two of them. Talk about a perfect storm of impossibility.
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Is there anything else to explain their playoffs success as the #8 seed? Like for example, a late season acquisition, or a long-injured player(s) who returned late in the season? Or is it simply that Spoelstra is taking an 8-seeded team and out-coaching everyone else so far? I have not followed them that closely this season.
No, if anything they should be doing worse as they lost Tyler Herro and Victor Oladipo to season ending injuries early in the first round, and they are basically the second and third best players on the team.
Herro could be back for the FInals.
Bringing back a shooter with a broken wrist early does not seem like a great idea. Even he can play there is no way he’ll be 100% and the team is obviously doing fine without him.
Not to be pedantic, but Herro fractured a couple of metacarpals (right hand bones), not his wrist. Whether he can be effective on coming back for the Finals is another matter.
Carmelo Anthony, the player my Pistons didn’t draft for some reason, just retired.
He did not play this season from what I am seeing?
I still can NOT believe Detroit didn’t take him in the draft.
Was that when they took Darko?
Yes, and the next three picks were Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade.
It’s pretty impressive when 40% of your result comes from undrafted players.
Yes. It was stunning and probably, on a magical level, why the Pistons don’t get good draft numbers now.
With Carmelo Anthony, who knows if the Pistons could have become dominant. We still might have had a lot of other great players that we did. I mean, the Pistons did win one championship after that draft. Ben Wallace, Ricky Hamilton, Tashaun Prince.
But Carmelo could have been a franchise player and the best Piston since Isiah Thomas.
They just had a first pick a couple years ago 
Lakers get swept. Wow. Pretty ignominious ending for LeBron.
Come on, Celtics. I don’t want to see Miami in the finals. I hate Miami. It’s in Florida.
Pretty tall order. Especially since no NBA team has ever come back down 0-3.
Have any teams down by three made it to game seven?
They can take inspiration from their sports brethren, the 2004 Red Sox. No baseball team ever came back from 3-0 down in the ALCS before they shut the Yankees up.
In any given sport, I always root for the team that has never won a championship, or hasn’t won it in a long time, to win it all.
Couple of years ago it was the Bucks, now this is the Nuggs’ year.
I can’t recall which series, but yes, there was once an NBA playoff series where it was 0-3, then 3-3, but the team that first led 3-0 did eventually win the Game Seven.
A very impressive sweep by Denver. And to hang in there in the first half given LeBron’s half was strong for them. And then their 3rd was crazy. I’m happy for Nuggets fans. And for the organization. They will be a force in the finals.
One sweep down, one to go.