Well, we see we're not goin anywhere... In my opinion, it's not a self-created problem if the situation is not the same for every team. Again, had all the teams gone to game 7s, my understanding from what I'm seeing around is that the Celtics would've been the only team that would've had to play these many games with little rest. With that being the case, the problem is by an large due to poor planning. Regardless of how the Celtics are playing, the NBA should've planned before hand to make sure that there's an opportunity for rest because all other teams have had the opportunity.
No two days rest since the 3rd game against Atlanta, you know how long that has been? It's ridiculous.
Hard to find the "hypothetical schedules" had all the teams gone to game 7s... but everything is pointing towards the Celtics having an unusual schedule that doesn't allow them to have rest. Again, I point towards the situation had the Celtics won game 6 against Atlanta. They would've started game one against the Cavs that Sunday and pressumably played the whole second round on one day rest anyways.
So wether the celtics had won on 6 games or 7 games against Atlanta seems to be of little issue here, since they wouldn't, from what I see, had any more rest in the second round anyways.
We shouldn't have to EARN the right to rest... it should be given to us for simply being the best team during the season... we earned that much.