Keidel: Would The Rockets Have Won With Chris Paul?

By Jason Keidel
We’re often told that life is unfair, and it’s often true. So one of the reasons we love sports is the fairness of the final score, the zero-sum reality of the result. Sports, unlike the rest of the world, is a true meritocracy. If the regular-season isn’t enough to prove which teams are best, we add a playoff to make sure.
So then the Golden State Warriors were clearly better than the Houston Rockets. Except they weren’t. The Warriors clearly won the