The NBA regular season, full of passionless games, increasingly feels way too long at 82 games.
The vibe was obvious Monday night inside Madison Square Garden, outside the arena, on the television broadcast. The Knicks were playing the Celtics, and for one of the few times in the last quarter century or so, it was a genuine event.the Knicks flattened the CelticsIt was. And whether it was a coincidence or not, the Knicks certainly seemed to play with an extra amount of pep in their step.
The NBA playoffs are a two-month bonanza partly because of the stakes involved, but mostly because there is no taking a night off, figuratively and literally. So after six months of warm-up, once the NBA postseason begins, you finally see the world’s best players maximizing both their talent and their effort, two and three times a night depending on how crowded the TV schedule is.This point really started to hit home a few years ago during the NBA’s bubble playoffs during the pandemic.
The thing is, hockey players are just different than most every other athlete. Even with the superstars, you get the sense they’d be delighted to find a frozen pond somewhere in Saskatoon and have at each other for a couple of hours with nothing more than a couple of kegs at stake. That leaves baseball, which occupies its own category altogether. Postseason ball is spectacular, and impossible to emulate across 162 games. Still, even at a time when 14 teams make the playoffs, the day-to-day matters. And if you are a true believer, it’s the grinds of May and August that make the payoffs of September and October so special. But if you are a casual fan? You know the difference between Game 5 of the World Series and game 73 of the regular season.
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