So, be grateful. If it weren't for LeBron James making a startling debut and delivering two rounds of awe-inspiring Finals performances in 2007 and 2020 to save the League, this series would have been the lowest-rated Finals in history. LeBron made a terrible Finals less terrible, and not everyone can do that.
In March, the Hawks, mentally fatigued, slackened a bit and lost three games. Yet, even so, the team still firmly held the top spot in the Eastern Conference.
Finally, the regular season entered its last half month.
Roger had long been itching for the playoffs, and April brought more good news for the Hawks: Jeff Hornacek could participate in training.
On the first day of April, when Michael Reed arrived early as usual at the training center, he found he wasn't the earliest to arrive that day.
The earliest was Hornacek, who was already practicing jump shots when Reed arrived.
