Howard Beck

We do not get grudge games of like Anthony Davis against the Mavericks.

That series was already over and he's not playing again.

We don't get Jaron Jackson Jr.

against the Grizz.

They're playing twice, but I guess he had season-ending surgery of some sort.

I may have one.

Bummer number three, Chris Paul is retired.

Bummer, period.

But we also don't get to see CP3 against the Clippers.

And then bummer number four is this.

As I start looking at April in particular, bad teams are going to have shut everybody down to be more bad.

And top teams are going to be resting guys for the playoffs.

So we may... I don't want to spoil those, but there are a couple that I may pick anyway.

But...

Part of the NBA's problem, which maybe we'll veer into since I wrote about a lot of this yesterday, is that shutting guys down in April really kind of spoils the product.

And there are games that might otherwise sound intriguing that may not be intriguing by the time we get to them.

I'm going to see where you go.

This one is a fudgy one.

You know, I'm going to throw some weird curves in here anyway.

So let's just start with this.