What is your prediction for the 2018 NBA Conference Finals?
First the ECF :LeBron is finally getting the help people would envy of. Love, Korver, Smith, Tristan are all playing the best basketball in the recent past. Because of this the top seeded Raptors got mauled in the semis.If the same support continues for Cavs, even the smartness of Brad Stevens would fall short. This Celtics’ team is playing very good but their toughest challenge lies ahead and I think Cavs will take the series in 6 or 7 games. Although I'm in favour of seeing someone new making it to finals from the eastern conference.Western Conference :The finals before the final. Happy to see cp3 breaking the 2nd round exit jinx and doing it all on his own. Hard carry with that super efficient monstrous performance.This series will eventually be deciding the championship winners as well.The main difference in this series would be the performance of Klay & Capela.No-one in the warriors would be edging capela and stopping those PnRs with Harden & Paul would be a major factor.On the other hand I think Klay would be lethal because a whole lot of focus would be on Curry & KD plus harden who isn't known for any defensive abilities would have the job of running around the best off ball mover. Klay would have a great series probably unless Mike D’Antoni comes up with a great plan of containing the warriors.As much as my mind says Cavs vs Warriors is again on cards, my heart says Chris Paul wouldn't want to waste this great chance to get a ring and would be a great leader & somehow along with Harden clinch the series in 7 games.
Based on the Western Conference playoffs so far, who from Western Conference do you got for the Finals now?
Who do you think from the Western Conference will reach the NBA Finals this year? Before Russell Westbrook got injured, I thought the Thunder were going to reach the Finals again, now that he is injured, I was thinking the Spurs, but the Warriors are giving the Spurs quite a hard time in the Western Conference Semi-Finals this year, so who do you got for the NBA Finals this year from the Western Conference?
What is the difference between a division and conference in the NBA?
lol the difference between a division and a conference is that there are 2 conferences in the NBA and there are divisions such as south east in the 2 conferences. there are 5 teams in each division and i am pretty sure there are 6 divisions in the NBA and there are 30 teams, 15 in each conference.
NBA seed predictions and playoffs?
Okay, here we go: The West 1. Lakers (59-23) 2. Nuggets 3. Suns 4. Rockets 5. Thunder 6. Spurs 7. Mavericks 8. Blazers (55-27) First round: Lakers 4, Blazers 2 Nuggets 4, Mavericks 1 Spurs 4, Suns 3 Rockets 4, Thunder 3 Semi-Finals Lakers 4, Spurs 2 Rockets 4, Nuggets 3 Western Conference Finals Lakers 4, Rockets 2 The East: 1. Heat 2. Magic 3. Bulls 4. Hawks 5. Celtics 6. Bucks 7. Knicks 8. Bobcats First Round: Heat 4, Bobcats 1 Magic 4, Knicks 2 Bucks 4, Bulls 3 Celtics 4, Hawks 2 Semi-Finals: Heat 4, Bucks 3 Celtics 4, Magic 3 Eastern Conference Finals Celtics 4, Heat 2 (It should be noted that I have the Heat in the ECF because they had no competition, as they were the first seed.) NBA Finals: Lakers 4, Celtics 3 2010-2011 Regular Season MVP: Dwight Howard (He'll have an amazing year) NBA First-Team PG: Deron Williams SG: Kobe Bryant SF: LeBron James PF: Amare Stoudemire C: Dwight Howard 6th man of the year: Lamar Odom Coach of the year: Erik Spoelstra Comeback Player of the Year: Yao Ming
What are your bold predictions for the 2019 NBA playoffs?
My 1st round NBA playoffs-2019 predictions.Eastern conference:Bucks in 4Raptors in 6Nets in 7Celtics in 5Western conference:Warriors in 5Nuggets in 6Thunder in 6Rockets in 7My 2nd round NBA playoffs-2019 predictions.Eastern conference:Celtics in 7Raptors in 6Western conference:Warriors in 7Thunder in 7Conference Finals prediction:Celtics in 6Warriors in 6NBA Playoffs Finals prediction:Celtics in 7P.S. I am a huge celtics fan so you could see how I ended up making them the NBA champions.
How do NBA playoffs and conferences work?
There are 2 conferences, Eastern and Western Conferences. 3 divisions in each conference consisting of 5 Teams each. depending on where the team is located (i.e. southwest, pacific, Atlantic) The Top 8 teams of each conference based on record, regardless of division, advance to the playoffs. so there are 8 Eastern Teams and 8 Western Teams. The Top 4 Teams in each Conference get Home-court advantage. The seeds decide who faces whom in the playoffs (1 vs 8, 2 vs 7, 3 vs 6, 4 vs 5) Teams play in a 7 game series. Most People think that the Western Conference in the tougher Conference of the 2 because many teams on the cusp of .500 or a little past .500 in winning percentage make the Eastern conference playoffs while most teams with identical records in the west are far from getting in the playoffs. Atlantic Division Boston Celtics New York Knicks New Jersey Nets Philadelphia 76ers Toronto Raptors Southeast Division Atlanta Hawks Charlotte Bobcats Miami Heat Orlando Magic Washington Wizards Central Division Chicago Bulls Cleveland Cavaliers Detroit Pistons Indiana Pacers Milwaukee Bucks Northwest Division Portland Trail Blazers Minnesota Timberwolves Oklahoma City Thunder Denver Nuggets Utah Jazz Southwest Division Dallas Mavericks Houston Rockets Memphis Grizzlies New Orleans Hornets San Antonio Spurs Pacific Division Golden State Warriors Los Angeles Clippers Los Angeles Lakers Phoenix Suns Sacramento Kings