The NBA regular season is winding down over the next few weeks, and that means some exciting battles for playoff seeding. Many of those don’t concern us as Syracuse Orange fans, but some of them do. There are several former SU players in the thick of the NBA Playoff races.
Carmelo Anthony is not one of them, so let’s just get the obligatory mention of the New York Knicks’ mess out of the way and move on...
Elswhere, however, there’s some exciting basketball ahead for the Orange in the NBA:
(listed alphabetically)
Michael Carter-Williams, Chicago Bulls
The Bulls are just a half-game back of the final spot in the Eastern Conference right now, which should make for an interesting stretch of games here as the team tries to make the playoffs without Dwayne Wade.