
How Are the 2020 Denver Nuggets in the Conference Finals?
In soccer, they have a concept called “winning on aggregate.” That is to say, two teams in the playoffs (OK, the “knockout round” in Euro-speak) play one game in each team’s home stadium and treat it like an extended 180-minute game, where most goals win. They have some tiebreakers (and, if necessary, they’ll go to extra time and penalty kicks in the second game), but for the most part, it is in essence a game where halftime is the conclusion of a complete game of soccer. The NBA doesn’t have that. You play a best-of-seven series and it doesn’t matter …
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