For many hard-core basketball fans, few waits are as interminable as the wait between a short conference finals series and the NBA Finals proper. That’s what happened this year, when the Dallas Mavericks won the Western Conference Finals in five games and the Boston Celtics won the Eastern Conference Finals in an even quicker four games. That left a full week between the conclusion of the conference finals and the start of the Finals. That means no NBA games for a week — a stark contrast to the beginning of the playoffs, where there were multiple games on a day. While there are no NBA games, …
