The Wizards would have presented some challenges for the Cavs, but they would have had about as good of a chance to beat the Cavs as the Celtics, meaning not a lot.
But Bradley Beal feels the Cavs ducked them.
“Cleveland didn’t want to see us. I always said that. I felt like that’s the reason they didn’t play us in the second round. They didn’t want to see us in the second round,” he said. “If they were going to go down, they were going to go down in the conference finals. They didn’t want to go down in the second round.”
The Wizards had plenty of opportunities to beat the Celtics, but they came up short, so I guess we will never know.