This is an IHeart podcast.

I want to talk about something more broad than the individual games themselves.

After watching the first round of the NBA playoffs, something has become very evident, very obvious.

Playoff seating doesn't matter anymore.

At all.

There was a time where teams would scratch and they would claw to try to get home court advantage in the playoffs.

I mean, after all, we've been told for decades that having home court is a difference

between life and death between Cancun and a deep run in the playoffs.

That's just not true anymore.

That's not.

The Miami Heat were a playing team.

Not just a playing team.

They lost their first game in the playing tournament.

They were down by double digits to the Chicago Bulls scratched and clawed just to get the eight seed.

And you know what they did?

They just beat a team that won two years ago the NBA title.

Yes, there was no Janus for two games, but it didn't matter.

They didn't have Tyler Hero either, one of their best shooters.

They made quick work of them in five.

Everybody thought that the heat were going to get bounced in four.

Nope.

Duncan Robinson has emerged from the crypt.

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