The conference semifinal round of the 2025/26 National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs concluded last Sunday night, with the only seven-game series of the round, which saw the Eastern Conference’s top seed, the Detroit Pistons, get overwhelmed by the fourth seeded Cleveland Cavaliers 125-94, in Detroit.

Making way for the tip off of the anticipated Conference Finals on Monday, and the start was beyond anything anyone could imagine.

Eerily, in the first game of each conference final series, the four teams scored exactly 101 points at the end of regulation, to send both games into overtime. Firstly, on just two days of rest, compared to six for their opponents, the San Antonio Spurs marched into Paycom Center, Oklahoma City, on Monday, to take on the defending champion Thunder, and what ensued was a double overtime thriller beyond anyone’s wildest expectation. Then, when it was thought that things couldn’t get any better, the Cavaliers, on less than two days’ rest, visited Madison Square Gardens on Tuesday, to take on the New York Knicks, who had been resting for nine days, and what transpired still has the NBA-world stunned.