Some people I know have been asking why the NBA lets Lebron James throw Curry and Dramond down on the hardwood court. It's because the league does not want a short series. The TV money is too good. I don't mean that there is a plot, just that the refs understand that this should not be a short series. Lebron asked the league on TV to sit Dramond Green down for one game, and the league did it, not because they want Cleveland to win but because they want a sixth game.
During the regular season each team faces what some call "mandatory losses." That is, the league will schedule the Warriors (or any team) to play Saturday night in Oakland, Sunday night in Manhattan and Monday at noon in Boston. The visitors will be too tired to win in Boston. The Warriors, in their entire history, have never gone on a seven game road trip and won seven games.
All this gives the worst team some victories and keeps the best team from making the others look too bad.
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