The San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder have simply rolled through this postseason. There's the 18-game winning streak that has the Spurs flirting with history. Seventeen combined playoff games and just one loss. The Thunder sending home the last two NBA champions, and no other playoff teams besides these two that can boast a series sweep.
The matchup of Russell Westbrook vs Tony Parker is very interesting.
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Game 1:
Oklahoma City 47-19 (Road: 21-12) 8:30pm ET
San Antonio 50-16 (Home: 28-5)
Heat-Celtics in East finals
It's a rematch: Miami and Boston will meet in the playoffs again, this time with a spot in the NBA finals at stake.
Boston's 85-75 win in Game 7 over Philadelphia on Saturday night earned the Celtics a trip to Miami, where the reigning East champion Heat will host Game 1 of this year's conference title series Monday night.
Boston took the regular-season series from Miami 3-1, though the last of those meetings was in the final game of the season and came on a night where LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh all sat out for Miami, while Kevin Garnett, Rajon Rondo and Ray Allen got the evening off for Boston.
The lineups will look more normal Monday, though Bosh will remain sidelined because of a strained lower abdominal muscle.
It'll be a quick turnaround for Boston, with Game 1 in Miami starting about 46 hours after Game 7 against the 76ers ended. The Heat finished off their East semifinal series against Indiana on Thursday night, took Friday off and held a light practice Saturday - focusing on themselves and not starting to work in details either the Celtics or the 76ers.
New Big 3 vs Old Big 3 + Rondo
Game 1: May 28 8:30pm EDT @MIA (TV: ESPN)
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