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The NBA Playoffs are upon us and that means all of the basketball we've been consuming over the past few months has just been leading up to the most meaningful basketball of the year. The NBA will either find a way to disrupt the Golden State Warriors' march to cementing their place in history or they'll lay down the rose petals in this ceremony. They're not the only game on the internet though. We have big time bathroom deals in the NFL and big time moments in Major League Baseball happening.

Let's review the weekend that was:

What Happened in Major League Baseball

BRYCE HARPER IS REALLY GOOD AT HITTING HOME RUNS

Remember how people used to joke about how if you were facing Barry Bonds with the bases loaded, you were better off walking him to give up the one run instead of multiple runs? OK, well Bryce Harper isn't at Barry Bonds levels of destruction (yet) but he is already on a historical pace that makes us pretty lucky to be alive during his career.

He faced the Atlanta Braves on Thursday and he had the bases loaded. He was also sitting on 99 career home runs. You can probably see where this is going...

He hurt the video board! The Nationals probably need to charge him for repairs on that because I'm not convinced those things are cheap to fix. He's the eighth youngest player to reach 100 home runs, and thanks to the magic of the internet, you can see them all right here.

It was also 15th home run the Braves have given up to Bryce. Only the Marlins have given up more (17) to him in his career. But he also wasn't done. As we got into the weekend, Harper kept smashing. He hit one off of Brett Oberholtzer on Friday. He hit one off Aaron Nola on Saturday. And then he faced Jeanmar Gomez in the top of the 10th inning on Sunday. He decided he wanted his team to take the lead.

The ball decided it needed to take a pit stop and went into the bullpen bathroom.

The Phillies ended up coming back and winning but this was still a monster shot. Four straight games with a home run. He has 103 home runs now and I think he's going to hit more.

JOSH DONALDSON IS A STRONG MAN

To hit a ball into the second deck to straightaway centerfield, you have to be an absurdly strong person. I feel very confident in saying Josh Donaldson is an extremely strong person. The Toronto Blue Jays' professional masher took a pitch from Nathon Eovaldi and decided it didn't need to exist anymore. It needed to be destroyed.

The people sitting out in centerfield in the second deck didn't catch it. They dropped it down below them, back toward the earth. I don't blame them. There's no way you buy those seats and expect a ball to be hit to you.

MORE LIKE I'LLSAVEUS ESCOBAR!

I don't need to set up this play. I don't want to spoil it with my words that are not worthy of attempting to describe this play. Here is Alcides Escobar:

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ADRIAN BELTRE WILL LAUGH AT YOUR COMICAL PITCHING

We all know Adrian Beltre. He loves a good impression. If you can do a voice impression of a celebrity, he'll love it. If you can throw in some physical cues of that celebrity, then Beltre will love you forever. He loves Chris Tillman.

It looks as if Chris Tillman was looking to show off his 50 Cent impersonation and I think he did a pretty good job.

Vlad Guerrero would've swung at that and he probably gets a double.

ALEX RODRIGUEZ FINDS SOME EXTRA STRENGTH IN BREAKING HIS SLUMP

A-Rod hasn't exactly been raking so far this season. He entered Sunday's game against the Seattle Mariners hitting .100 (not the emoji) and in an 0-for-19 slump. He needed to find some extra strength that usually isn't there to put a hurting on the ball. He needed to find some juice in that bat in order to break out of the slump. He did just that.

It's a good thing he broke the 0-of-19 slump and didn't get out again. 0-of-20 would've been embarrassing.

What Happened in the NFL

THE LOS ANGELES RAMS TRADED FOR THE NO. 1 PICK THANKS TO A BATHROOM

The Tennessee Titans owned the No. 1 pick in the draft until the middle of this past week. That's when the Titans sent picks 1, 113, and 190 to the Los Angeles Rams in exchange for six draft picks. The Titans received picks No. 15, 43, 45, and 76 this year, and they also get the Rams' 1st and 3rd round picks in next year's draft. It's a mega deal that should land the Rams a prized rookie quarterback heading into their first game in Los Angeles since 1994. Pretty amazing, right?

What's even more amazing is they can thank a bathroom break or 12 for brokering the deal. Apparently at the NFL Combine, the Rams and Titans had adjacent suites as they looked over the physical attributes of the draft process. So what they did was pretend to have to use the bathroom in order to sneak away and discuss the potential deal.

Those Flomax commercials only give you the worries over prostate medication and never let you know it can lead to landing the top pick in the NFL Draft.

Not only that but the Rams and Titans were ready to announce the deal on Friday before realizing Los Angeles was a little focused on Kobe Bryant. So in order to make a big splash, they waited until the day after his 50-shot, 60-point game before announcing the trade.

SPEAKING OF THE TITANS, THEY HAVE AN INTERESTING TWIST ON MOVIE NIGHT

The Titans invited a bunch of their fans to Nissan Stadium recently, and were going to have a movie night. That's a really great community building promotion. Fans get to come to the stadium, set up shop on the turf, and relax with hundreds or even thousands of people who love the same football team you do and watch a movie together. There's one problem with doing that.

The team has to remember to turn the sprinkler system off or at least switch it to another day/time.

The better have been watching the movie Water World, otherwise what are we even doing here?

LET'S CHECK IN ON CLEVELAND BROWNS FANS...

If you were a Cleveland Browns fan and you were frustrated with your football team, what's the one way you would commemorate the team and show them exactly how you feel about their current state and where you think they're headed?

Yeah, that sounds about right.

What Happened in the NBA Playoffs

TORONTO RAPTORS: WE THE WELP

I totally understand why the Toronto Raptors would be feeling themselves heading into the playoffs. They're the 2-seed in the East. They just won a franchise record 56 games after never winning at least 50. They have a couple of All-Star players in Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan. This team is really good. There's just one problem:

They have had really bad showings in the first-round of the playoffs the last two years. They lost in seven games to the Brooklyn Nets two years ago. Last year, the Washington Wizards slapped them around in a four-game sweep. You are going to want to just put your nose to the grind stone and work hard and not talk any trash and oh my this Indiana trash-talking video in the arena in Game 1 was a terrible idea.

It's not that this is offensive to Indiana; the problem is it's offensive to people who can even be mildly funny. This trash talking video just isn't good. The jokes are dumb. The delivery of the guy reading it is terrible. It's the Sandman away from being hooked off the stage at the Apollo Theater in record time. If you're going to try to have a good-natured ribbing about the place of your opponent, you need to be funny.

Otherwise, you better win the game because then that would be incredibly embarrassing and good thing for the Raptors is they don't have to worry about oh no how did they let Paul George do this in the third quarter and ultimately lose Game 1 at home again?

Pacers won 100-90.

The Pacers took Game 1 from the Raptors for two reasons: 1) Paul George was ridiculous. He scored 17 of his 33 points in the third quarter of this game and dominated the Raptors. And 2) this is what the Raptors do. Third straight year of being the higher seed than their first-round opponent, third straight year of dropping Game 1 at home. Kyle Lowry, DeMar DeRozan, and Jonas Valanciunas combined for 37 points on 12-of-46 from the field.

But hey, cool Indiana jokes.

STEPH CURRY DOMINATES, GETS HURT, AND IT DOESN'T MATTER BECAUSE ROCKETS

I don't believe the Golden State Warriors respect the Houston Rockets. We know these two teams don't like each other. And after a promising Western Conference finals a year ago, the Rockets limped into the first-round (barely) and got a rematch with the Warriors. That meant there was some serious chippiness, but that didn't exactly lead to a competitive Game 1.

Instead, the Warriors demolished the Rockets, and even though Steph Curry tweaked his ankle and missed the final 21:13 of the game, the Warriors easily won the game.

The Warriors won 104-78 and I'm not sure it was that close.

I don't think the Warriors even need to risk it with Curry in Game 2. Or Game 3. Or Game 4. They can sweep this Rockets team without Curry, who is a gametime decision for Monday's second game.

BOSTON CELTICS COMEBACK FALLS JUST SHORT TO ATLANTA HAWKS

The best game of Saturday happened in ATL SHAWTY with the Hawks hosting the Celtics. Atlanta dominated the first half by not turning the ball over and forcing Boston to operate their offense in the half court. That's about as efficient as the Toronto video team coming up with a funny skit about Indiana. Hawks were flying high at halftime, but had to know that Boston would make a run. They always make a run.

In the second half, Isaiah Thomas woke up and caught fire. He hit four 3-pointers on his way to 21 second half points to help Boston eliminate an 18-point deficit. The Celtics couldn't miss but they also couldn't stop Jeff Teague and Al Horford. Those two combined for 47 points in the game. Horford grabbed 12 rebounds. Teague dished out 12 assists. And the Hawks hung on for a 102-101 victory.

This one feels like it's going seven games.

THE SHINING ELEVATORS HAD LESS BLOOD THAN THUNDER-MAVS

Remember the tale of the Tortoise and the Hare? The Hare is quicker and more athletic than the Tortoise. He's also brash and a bit too cocky in the way he approaches the race with his slow-footed friend. He doesn't take it seriously and, therefore, his arrogance and lack of focus end up hurting the Hare. He allows the Tortoise to stay in the race and eventually you have an upset at hand.

Now imagine that story in which the Hare is Russell Westbrook. And he's helped by another Hare named Kevin Durant. And the Tortoise is just Ray Felton and an effective but aging Dirk Nowtizki. It's going to end up looking something like this and you're getting the expected winner.

Thunder dominated 108-70.

There's only one thing you can say while you're watching a bloodbath like this:

PISTONS COME OUT STRONG AGAINST THE CAVALIERS BUT THE CAR STALLS

1-8 match-ups aren't supposed to be terribly competitive. It's basically just a warm-up round for the 1-seed, especially in the East where the Cleveland Cavaliers are supposed to march through to the NBA Finals. Well, the Detroit Pistons have different plans. Stan Van Gundy's team is surprisingly bad at shooting the ball (25th in the NBA), but they must have been saving up all of those makes for the first-round against the Cavs.

In Game 1, both teams came out firing from 3-point range. The two teams combined for 27 makes in the game, as the Pistons shot over 50 percent from deep.

This game was close throughout and it felt like the Pistons had control of it for the first 42 minutes of the game. But that Big 3 of LeBron James, Kevin Love, and Kyrie Irving can be just too much over the course of 48 minutes. The Pistons struggled in the final six minutes and lost their composure a bit. Perhaps it was inexperience in the playoffs. Perhaps it was frustration with their own mistakes compounded by calls they didn't like.

Whatever it was, the LeBron-Love-Kyrie trio combined for 81 points on 29-of-63 shooting. Love had 13 rebounds. James had 11 assists and six rebounds. Kyrie had six assists and five rebounds. It was quite the show.

Cavs escaped with a 106-100 victory.

Reggie Jackson said he didn't want to face Goliath's homeboy or brother. He wanted Goliath. He has a great slingshot but he also felt the strength of Goliath. This should be a fun series, even if it ends up being short.

HASSAN WHITESIDE AND LUOL DENG ARE FREE AGENTS AND KILLING BEES

The Charlotte Hornets can do a lot without a rim protector or a great big man rotation. They don't have a bad big man rotation, but they don't have one with a lot of great players and options. That is a problem when you face someone like Hassan Whiteside, who is blocking shots and dunking toward a gigantic contract this coming summer.

Whiteside was incredible. 21 points on 9-of-11 shooting while also controlling the boards and protecting the rim. He also had a dunk that made the entire Miami Heat bench start flexing like a roider in an Instagram selfie. Hashtag No Days Off.

Whiteside wasn't the only free agent-to-be for the Heat having himself a game. Luol Deng was even better, scoring 31 points on 11-of-13 from the field as the Heat took all of the sting out of the Hornets.

South Beach won 123-91 but you have to assume Charlotte will come back with a better effort in Game 2.

PLEASE GRIZZLIES, WE KNOW YOU WON'T DO IT BUT JUST TAP OUT

The Memphis Grizzlies are too hurt to compete with this San Antonio Spurs squad. This Spurs squad is historic and you need to be at full strength and playing your best basketball to be able to take them down. That is not this Grizzlies team. If you're not a basketball fan but you want to experience this Grizzlies-Spurs series then just make sure you watch any of the Saw movies or maybe even Hostel.

It sums it up perfectly.

Spurs won 106-74 and there's only one thing you can say while watching Spurs-Grizzlies. Come on, you know what it is:

BLAKE GRIFFIN IS BACK AND THE BLAZERS CAN'T HANG IN GAME 1

Blake Griffin is back for the Los Angeles Clippers but he didn't have a lot of time to get into a rhythm between his return from injury/suspension and the start of the playoff run. That has some people wondering if the Portland Trail Blazers can play the upset role in the first-round in the Western Conference. The other three series already look like they're decided, but the Blazers should have a real chance thanks to 3-point shooting and offensive rebounding.

However, if Griffin can be himself again and the Clippers can get into a rhythm with Blake, then the Blazers could be in trouble. In Game 1 of this series, Griffin was himself with 19 points, 12 rebounds, and six assists. He also can still get up in the air.

That wasn't the only big dunk in this game though. The Clippers showed off their athleticism and reminded us of just how fun they can be when they're running and jumping all over the court like it's SlamBall.

Clippers cruised to the 115-95 victory and don't look as upset as some people pontificated.

The Warriors and Rockets don't exactly love each other. (USATSI)
The Warriors and Rockets don't exactly love each other. (USATSI)