Teams don’t want to play LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Playoffs. That could have been assumed before, but there’s no denying it now after seeing the lengths that the LA Clippers and Denver Nuggets went to in the final days of the regular season.
With the No. 3 seed up for grabs, the Clippers rested Paul George and Kawhi Leonard in their last two games against the Houston Rockets and Oklahoma City Thunder, the two teams with the worst records in the Western Conference.