It’s here! It’s here! The real season — the one we’ve been waiting months for — is here!
Welcome to the NBA playoffs, folks — the most wonderful time of the year.
The defending champion Warriors — nursing an injury to their talisman, Stephen Curry, and facing drastically improved competition in the Western Conference — enter this postseason looking to be the fifth team in NBA history to go to four straight NBA Finals.
It won’t be an easy thing to do, though the way the NBA playoff seedings shook out, it could have been a lot harder.