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The NBA returns tonight after its weeklong All-Star break. This season could be the most wide-open playoff race in decades.

The NBA returns tonight after its weeklong All-Star break, as a league defined byThe Boston Celtics are on pace to finish with a league-best 58 wins. If that holds, this would be the first 82-game season since 2000-01 without a 60-win team — and just the second such season in the past 44 years.

For the first time in the 27 seasons that the NBA has tracked net rating , there are fewer than three teams with at least a 5.0 in that stat,

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