I was pretty damn excited going into the playoffs but they have exceeded expectations so far. No one series has been as compelling as say Celts-Bulls a few years back, but almost every one has been very compelling, exciting, hard-fought, skilled basketball. The only one of eight I haven't followed is Magic-Hawks (just can't bring myself to care about either of those teams - neither of them has a prayer in the next round also). I think I've seen around 90% of the games so far, and almost all of them have been competitive.
Grizzles-Spurs has been great (and scary to think Rudy Gay is on the bench...), Blazers-Mavs (my pick for an upset going in...) has been just a cage match (and the Roy game was as left-field as the Dragic game last year), Bulls-Pacers (reminds me of AI's Sixers the way Rose is just dragging them singlehandedly on), Hornets-Lakers, just great to see the champs get their noses bloodied...I could go on and on. Also great to see the Celtics work up to speed at last. They look a lot more ready for Miami now. Still not as good as they could be, but all things considered, I'll take it.