NBA playoffs 2021: LeBron and Steph Curry's play-in performance was the playoff prelude everyone ...

LOS ANGELES -- By all accounts, the play-in tournament has been a resounding success for the NBA this year. It created exciting new scenarios toward the end of the regular season and mostly stemmed the widespread tanking which had made a mockery of the final month of play for the 14 teams who weren't making the playoffs.