Shee-it. This has been going on since Bill Russell and Jerry West.
For most of the sixties the Lakers played Washington Capitols to the Celtics' Globetrotters. Miraculously improbable finishes were de rigeur.
And they stunk as bad as Red Auerbach's victory cigar.
Showing my youth. Russell and West were long retired when I started watching the NBA. Haven't watched 20 games over the last 10 years though. Not what it used to be.