The NBA Playoffs had it’s first intense Game 7 on Saturday night as the Spurs and Clippers went down to the wire to decide a winner.
We have survived one round of the NBA Playoffs so far, and the Game 7 showdown between the San Antonio Spurs and Los Angeles Clippers was one of the very finest games of the playoffs we’ve seen so far.
The defending champions were on the road but they took the Clippers down to the wire but in the end it was Los Angeles pulling through with a clutch bucket from Chris Paul and some shifty tricks from the shot clock operator in Staples Center.
Here’s a look at the updated NBA Playoffs bracket now that the Clippers have eliminated the Spurs in the first round of the postseason.
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The Clippers are on to face the Houston Rockets in a series that will be one of the series we stop everything to watch in the second round. Houston is a force in the West, and they’re a favorite to move on to the Conference Finals and challenge the Eastern Conference champion in the NBA Finals.
They’ve made it through the defending champs, and while we won’t get to see Gregg Popovich challenge LeBron James for a third straight year in the Finals, the Clippers-Rockets series is going to be well worth whatever we lost with the Spurs being eliminated.
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