1.   Does Nellie have any idea how lost a division championship banner would be, physically and symbolically, inside the cavernous American Airlines Center?

2.   For years, Auerbach has openly mocked the Bruins for hanging division championship banners from the rafters.

3.   Forget the division banner.

4.   How did the Astros go from the euphoria of hanging division banners year after year to the increasingly difficult exercise of hanging onto their sanity night after night?

5.   In the NBA, division banners mean little.