NBA Bubble: Rank the best playoff matchups to watch


We’ve been through a wave of restless starters and stealth tanking over the last week, and we’ve been rewarded with what honestly is a pretty fascinating playoff bracket. The Lakers would have to fight in a round one a highly overqualified No. 8 seed, and their opponent in Los Angeles faced one of the greatest phenomena in recent memory. There are former teammates out west and a fete re-emerging in the East. Even with two snoozers at the junior varsity conference, there is a lot of good basketball to keep us happy for the next few weeks.

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