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Legendary Boston hardcore/skate punk band Gang Green’s most famous song is “Another Wasted Night,” in which they rock out as they recount how their constant drunken hooliganism renders each and every night the same indistinguishable haze of blackouts and buffoonery.

While the analogy isn’t perfect, I can’t help but think that watching the NBA Eastern and Western Conference finals is just another wasted night.

Like a case of herpes, the San Antonio Spurs just won’t go away. Somehow, it seemed like this just might be the season that hoops fans would be spared from watching this whiny, duller than a bowling ball, group of cheap shot artists play deep into the playoffs. After all, the upstart N’awlins Hornets spanked them in the first two games of their Western Conference series, as the Spurs seemed to have no answer for Chris Paul and David West and Tyson Chandler were holding it down inside.

Unfortunately, youth was not served and San Antonio fought back to knot the series before winning game seven 91-82 to advance to face Kobe & Co. in the Western Conference Finals.

I’m sick of being told that the reason no team in the Eastern Conference semis can score more points in an entire game than the average WNBA team does is an half is because of the intense defense. That’s just not what’s going on in the East at all. Instead of forcing fans to suffer through countless slugfests played in the 80s, the NBA ought to just save us the trouble and flip a coin to determine which offensively-challenged Eastern Conference team gets to play in the Finals.

This isn’t about defense; it’s about the Eastern Conference being rubbish.