In the NBA, there’s nothing better than a Game 7.
Fortunately for fans tuning in Sunday, May 3, there are two of them, between the No. 1 Detroit Pistons and No. 8 Orlando Magic and between the No. 4 Cleveland Cavaliers and No. 5 Toronto Raptors.
In win-or-go-home scenarios, teams tend to elevate their play and compete with desperation. Perhaps no team is feeling that more than Orlando, which had a 3-1 series lead before it allowed the Pistons to win two in a row, the most recent after an epic choke job in Game 6 in which the Magic shot only 4-of-37 from the floor in the second half.
Here are the winners and losers from Sunday’s Game 7s:
This is what a Most Valuable Player candidate is supposed to do. After he dropped a team-high 32 points in Game 7 Sunday, he brought his scoring average over Detroit’s last three games in the first round — all of which were elimination games — to 36.3 points per game.
