The most nervous I was all playoffs was Game 6 of the Warriors-Grizzlies. In all other cases (DEN, DAL, BOS, MEM with Ja), I felt GSW was the better team and would eventually figure things out, but the Ja-Morant-less MEM team was one that I really feared.
Might want to fast forward through Game 5.
> The 18-year old Wembanyama, who recently measured 7-foot-4 barefoot with an 8-foot wingspan
Not sure if that's new info... but that's craaaaaazy
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/34537113/victor-wembanyama-projected-no-1-pick-2023-nba-draft-match-another-star-prospect-scoot-henderson-nevada-exhibitions-source-says
Over in the W, Bay Area native Chelsea Gray is on a burner of truly epic proportions. For the playoffs (an admittedly very small sample of six games so far), she's averaging 24 points and almost 8 assists on 63/60/89 shooting. That's a TS% of 76. I was rooting for her opponent (the Storm) in the last round, and it was pure torture. She makes every. single. shot.
For those who haven't seen her play, it's definitely not a delirious Steph- or Klay-esque experience, despite the numbers. She's much more deliberate than that—a somewhat odd player with a lot of herky-jerk YMCA moves and an absolutely automatic fadeaway midrange jumper. The NBA player she most resembles is maybe Chris Paul (?), but she's a bit bigger and stronger, relatively speaking, and probably takes a couple more threes per game. There's maybe even a bit of a KD vibe—though they're extremely dissimilar in most other ways—just because of the insane, robotic efficiency. If that sounds not super fun to watch, I wouldn't argue too strenuously, but it has been impressive. She eliminated Sue Bird, and it definitely felt like a passing of the point guard torch in that league.