BBNBA: Tyler Herro’s near triple-double lands Heat in playoffs; Fox & Kings fall to Pelicans
The relatively new NBA phenomenon known as the play-in games is a particularly unique purgatory in American sports. It’s not the regular season. It’s not the playoffs. It is something in between. In fact, it is such a newfound territory that NBA statisticians don’t know what to do with it. Really. Stats garnered in these play-in games do not count toward the player’s regular season or playoff totals. They are sort of just numerical enigmas floating around in NBA space. The games clearly happened, and yet, they didn’t. Friday marked the final set of play-in games to determine the 8-seed in each...