The first round of the NBA playoffs wasn’t just weird—it was revealing. Just look at the Denver Nuggets and Boston Celtics: The margins have all but disappeared.
Jaylen Brown was still processing the painful end of the Celtics’ season—a stunning first-round loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, capped by a crushing Game 7 defeat in Boston—when he was asked to put his emotions into words. The first adjective he land... [8355 chars]