101.   Four years ago, the Denver Nuggets started a first-round NBA playoff series against the Seattle SuperSonics as monumental underdogs.

102.   Fourth place means a home-ice advantage in the opening playoff series against the fifth place team.

103.   From a visual standpoint, the Indiana-Philadelphia second-round playoff series promises to be an eyesore.

104.   Gonzalez took all four and trotted to first base in one of his least damaging times at bat in the divisional playoff series.

105.   Gossage said he first detected that quality in Rivera in the Seattle playoff series of two seasons ago.

106.   Having lost all six playoff series in their franchise history, the Astros look like a team weighed down by its past, and the baggage keeps getting heavier.

107.   Griffin has ruled himself out of the first-round playoff series with Minnesota.

108.   He has given the Hornets hope in a playoff series many analysts conceded to Chicago before the first game was played.

109.   He became the second player ever to average a triple-double in a playoff series as long as six games.

110.   He has been in two division playoff series and one championship series but no World Series so far.