By any measure — also including the absence of San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich for medical reasons — the first three weeks of this season have not gone well on the NBA health front.
Cleveland has won its first 12 games and is off to the best start in the league. There are 10 teams in the Western Conference with winning records. And somehow, only two teams in the Eastern Conference have winning records.
All those big-name injured players are critical to their teams, all of them All-Star or in some cases All-NBA candidates when they’re at their best. It's not that difficult to figure out: teams are in a group of five, play the other four teams once, and the six group winners along with two wild-cards go to the quarterfinals. Win that, and you go to Las Vegas for the semifinals. Indiana made the final last year and it's more than reasonable to say the Pacers learned something from that experience that helped propel them to the East finals last spring.
Nobody, it seems, is safe from the injury bug. Not even the Cavs, who have gotten off to their red-hot start withBut they have more than endured, and other teams have found ways to get through being short-handed as well. Boston, for example, just played four games without; the NBA champions, to no one's surprise, are off to a 9-2 start. Other than the Celtics and Cavs, every team in the East starts play Tuesday at .500 or worse.
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