It’s looking more and more like the battle for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference is going to come down to the final weekend of the season, but perhaps not in the way some of us might have envisioned it. The chase has ground down to a turtle race, and a team that some may have thought dead a week or two ago might be the hare lurking in the weeds.
Most of the teams in serious contention for the second wild berth in the east are currently limping towards the finish line, allowing the entire conference to stay mathematically alive, meaning less of a chance of a “gimme” on the schedule.