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Both the NBA finals and the Stanley Cup finals are just one win away from ending and the teams that need that win to end these series are going to be playing at home in Game 5.

Now as you know from reading the blog before I don’t watch very much NBA, but I have watched more of the finals than I have of all regular season games combined. I have managed to watch quite a bit of the Stanley Cup finals though and I have to say I haven’t been all that excited about either series.

I think that the majority of the games have been pretty good, but for some reason I just haven’t been able to immerse myself into either series and I’m not really sure why. I guess it’s possible that since I don’t have a horse in the race as they say that I’m just not that into either series, but that hasn’t stopped me before.

Now I’ve always been more of a baseball guy and now that the weather is nicer out and the baseball season is in full swing, I’m just not paying as much attention to the NBA or NHL finals.

Or who knows maybe I’m just getting old.

Anyway, the NBA has the first chance to crown a champion as the Denver Nuggets host the Miami Heat on Tuesday in Ball Arena. Do you think that Denver closes out the series?

The NHL is taking an extra day off, so Game 5 of the Stanley Cup finals won’t be played until Wednesday. The series returns to T-Mobile Arena as the Las Vegas Golden Knights look to end the series with the Florida Panthers. Do you think that the Golden Knights will win Game 5?

If both these series end in their next game, it would kind of ruin the runs that the Heat and the Panthers went on during the playoffs. Both teams were considered 8th seeds even though Miami had the 7th best record in the Easten conference. I don’t want to get into that again, but for the sake of this will say they were an 8th seed.

I’m not sure if two lower seeded teams like the Heat and the Panthers have ever won championships in the same season, but I’m guess they haven’t. It’s very rare that a lower seeded NBA playoff team makes it as far as Miami did and I think it would’ve been nice to see both teams win championships, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen.

If there was a team that could come back from being down 3-1 in a series, it would be the Panthers. In the 1st round of the NHL playoffs, it looked like Florida would be going home as they were down 3-1 to the Boston Bruins. Yes, this was the Bruins team that set all kinds of regular season record, but the Panthers came back and won three straight to advance. Starting on Wednesday will see if the Panthers can win three straight games from another #1 seed.

Once the NBA and the NHL wrap up their seasons it will be baseball and just baseball until the NFL kicks in. You do have to wonder if these seasons overlapping each other hurt the leagues. I’m not sure if that’s diminished my interest in the NBA and Stanley Cup finals, but I’m sure it hasn’t helped. Unfortunately, there’s no way to avoid this as leagues aren’t going to shorten their regular seasons or playoffs and they’re not going to move the start of their seasons to avoid competing with each other.

It’s just one of those things that sports fans have to deal with and have been dealing with for many years. I’d like to know how you handle the overlapping seasons. I’m sure that there’s one sport for you that you prefer to watch over the other like I do. Can you skip a game that your favorite team in your favorite sport is playing in to watch a playoff game from another sport.

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