The NBA playoffs come with serious baggage.
Sift through the league's 16 participants and you'll find un-chewable beef everywhere. Teams hating teams, players hating players, executives hating executives—you name it.
We may also see legitimate on-court rivalries. This year's playoff bracket has drama everywhere.
Not all of these basketball rumbles will be rehashed during the postseason. Seeding makes certain matchups beyond unlikely. But it still helps to revisit and relive some of the biggest feuds.
Team Beefs
Clippers-Warriors
The Los Angeles Clippers and Golden State Warriors don't like each other. That's not the media musing; it's paraphrasing Draymond Green.
"We always want to beat them, and they always want to beat us," he said in November, per Rusty Simmons of the San Francisco Chronicle. "There's definitely more respect than people think, but it's also no secret that we don't like them and they don't like us."
That might be an understatement. The animosity shared between these two parties predates even Golden State's rise to ...
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