L.A. and Boston are highly favored to move on, and New Orleans is, if nothing else, at least capable of doing the same. All three can do this without a Game 4 victory. They might as well put a lineup on the court starting with their 12th man up, and see what happens. They could use their Xs and Os whiteboard to just write "WE FORFEIT" and ask the officials to come into the locker room to read it. It's bad for ratings and bookies, but these teams who earned four games at home just aren't losing there. They haven't yet.
Of course, if one of those teams lollygags through Game 4 then gets taken down at home in Game 5, then they definitely deserve to lose the series if they channeled their game plan through something I suggested.
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