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Rating the first playoff weekend

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com

Monday, April 20, 2009

It's the first Monday in months without a fresh batch of NBA Power Rankings to unveil. But we're still in that mode. The most natural transition, then, is ranking the various developments from the maiden weekend of playoff basketball to help us project what will happen from here. So ... Here are eight bests culled from the first eight games of the NBA postseason: Best Weekend: Cleveland Cavaliers Not even Derrick Rose -- even if we look at nothing other than his line and the final score ...

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