NBA - Worst four games in five day series for NBA teams

Four Games. Five Nights.
Ten Exhausting Trips.
Welcome to the dreaded "4-in-5" -- the schedule quirk where teams travel around the country and across time zones to play four games in five nights. Yes, that's two back-to-backs in a row with just a travel day in between. With the NBA requiring teams to travel overnight for back-to-backs, chances are your favorite team is sleep-deprived. And thanks to an extended All-Star break this season, the NBA schedule will call for more of these sleepy bear traps, almost 70 in all. Here are the 10 longest 4-in-5 treks of the 2014-15 season. Buckle in. And sleep tight.
The Numbers The Problem The Solution
BY TOM HABERSTROH
Four Games. Five Nights.
Ten Exhausting Trips.
Welcome to the dreaded "4-in-5" - the schedule quirk where teams travel around the country and across time zones to play four games in five nights. Yes, that's two back-to-backs in a row with just a travel day in between. With the NBA requiring teams to travel overnight for back-to-backs, chances are your favorite team is sleep-deprived. And thanks to an extended All-Star break this season, the NBA schedule will call for more of these sleepy bear traps, almost 70 in all. Here are the 10 longest 4-in-5 treks of the 2014-15 season. Buckle in. And sleep tight.
The Numbers The Problem The Solution
BY TOM HABERSTROH
10: Minnesota Timberwolves: 2,525 Total Miles
- 9: Sacramento Kings: 2,594 Total Miles
- - 8: Golden State Warriors: 2,619 Total Miles
  - - 7: Portland Trail Blazers: 2,682 Total Miles
    - - 6: Denver Nuggets: 2,782 Total Miles
      - 6: Denver Nuggets:
        2,782 Total Miles
        This is the Denver north-south triangle. The good news: Houston will be on a 4-in-5 back-to-back, as well. Halftime is naptime.
        5: Denver Nuggets: 2,802 Total Miles
        5: Denver Nuggets:
        2,802 Total Miles
        Denver's second appearance on the list. From L.A. to New Orleans, this is the reverse Chris Paul trek. Upside: only three time zones.
        4: L.A. Clippers: 2,839 Total Miles
        4: L.A. Clippers:
        2,839 Total Miles
        Four time zones in five days. Hit the altitude in Denver, home for a pit stop, then fly to Texas to face the Spurs and then all the way to Atlanta. This pre-Christmas trip is like finding coal in your stocking.
        3: Denver Nuggets: 2,866 Total Miles
        3: Denver Nuggets:
        2,865 Total Miles
        Nuggets get a taste of their own Mile High medicine. Second nights of a back-to-back both in Denver with the last one facing -- gulp -- the well-rested defending champs.
        2: Golden State Warriors: 2,986 Total Miles
        2: Golden State Warriors:
        2,986 Total Miles
        From Sleep Train Arena to the City That Never Sleeps. A breezy back-to-back followed by a cross-country flight capped by an overnight up the Atlantic Coast to the Big Apple. Good luck, body clock.
        1: Boston Celtics: 3,010 Total Miles
        1: Boston Celtics:
        3,010 Total Miles
        Good job, Boston! You just made it to the other side of the country. Now enjoy flying from the coast to the mountains to the coast to the mountains again in five days. Longest 4-in-5 of the season.
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