OKC and New Orleans gave us our only really good game of the day, but there were plenty of portents elsewhere.

Two potential road favorites failed to show up in Milwaukee and Los Angeles, while Boston was unperturbed in Game 1 against Miami.

On day one, the higher seeds served notice that upsets may not be so easy to come by in the first round.

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