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The play-in — the NBA’s version of the Wild Card round — concluded on April 18, with two games: Miami defeating Atlanta and Memphis knocking off Dallas. The playoffs start on Saturday, April 19, with four games, and will run through mid-June.

NBA playoffs are in full swing, and the Cleveland Cavaliers joined the Oklahoma City Thunder in the second round on Monday night. The Cavs finished off a sweep of the Mia

The field for the second round is beginning to take shape in the 2025 NBA playoffs. Eleven teams remain in the playoff bracket, and five teams -- the Thunder, Cavaliers, Pacers, Celtics and Timberwolves -- have already moved on.

NBA playoffs bracket 2025 for first-round NBA postseason series, with Oklahoma City Thunder, Cleveland Cavaliers top seeds in NBA playoff bracket.

The NBA's regular season is in the books. After a dramatic finish to the regular season last weekend, and a pair of impressive showings to close the play-in tournament on Friday night, the playoff field is officially set. Here are all of the matchups and the schedule for the 2025 NBA playoffs.

Tobias Harris is among several former Philadelphia 76ers battling in the 2025 NBA Playoffs. In a shocking turn of events, Harris helped a Detroit Pistons team t

The Timberwolves star joined Shaquille O'Neal, Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan, Charles Barkley, Hakeem Olajuwon, Moses Malone, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the only players to record a similar statline in a closeout game.

The Western Conference is full of intriguing first-round matchups this season. The seventh-seeded and battled-tested Warriors are favored over the second-seeded but relatively inexperienced Rockets -- and that experience showed as Golden State won 95-85 in Houston on Sunday.

Heading into a Sunday slate featuring all 30 NBA teams, absolutely nothing ... here are the final playoff standings for the 2025 Western Conference postseason, including the first-round matchups that are set in stone and the assortment of play-in teams ...

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The Nuggets face the Clippers in Game 6 of the NBA Playoffs. We continue our NBA Playoffs props series our Nuggets-Clippers props.

The No. 7 Golden State Warriors currently hold a 3-1 lead over the No. 2 Houston Rockets and the No. 6 Minnesota Timberwolves hold a similar lead on the No. 3 Los Angeles Lakers – two upsets that will need the higher seed to turn things around in order to advance.

The Denver Nuggets play against the Los Angeles Clippers in game 6 of their NBA Playoff series tonight. Fans can watch this game for free.

The Denver Nuggets will face off against the Los Angeles Clippers in an NBA playoff matchup on Thursday. This prediction features our best bet of the game.

It’s 2025, when NBA coaches get creative with who guards whom throughout playoff series. But these two coaches, the Knicks’ Tom Thibodeau and the Pistons’ J.B. Bickerstaff, don’t go out of their way to crossmatch.

Julius Randle doesn’t have a long track record of postseason success; just the opposite, in fact. Randle entered these playoffs with career postseason averages of 34.4% shooting from the field and 28.3% shooting from beyond the arc.

The second round is scheduled to get underway from Monday, May 5, to Tuesday, May 6, according to the NBA. But those start dates could be moved up to Saturday, May 3, and Sunday, May 4, depending on when first-round series conclude. The NBA playoffs follow a bracket format and do not reseed teams after the first round.

The New York Knicks will face off against the Detroit Pistons in an NBA playoff matchup on Thursday. This prediction is based on 10,000 simulations of the game.

Both Cleveland and Indiana boast deep rosters that deliver in the clutch, which should make for a competitive semifinals clash.

In response to an Instagram video of Edwards celebrating a Game 5, series-clinching victory in Los Angeles on April 30, Adidas commented: "AE hungry for some Curry," a reference to future Golden State Warriors Hall of Famer Stephen Curry.

The regular-season rivalry wasn't very much of a rivalry, as the Celtics won all four matchups. Boston won the first three games by 23, 27 and 13 points, respectively, before taking the final showdown, 119-117, in overtime back on April 8 in New York.

The Cleveland Cavaliers and Indiana Pacers will tip things off on May 4, and the series could extend to May 18 if it goes the full seven games. The Boston Celtics will play either the New York Knicks or Detroit Pistons starting on May 5, and they could keep going as late as May 19.

NBA playoffs picks, predictions, odds for Cleveland Cavaliers vs Indiana Pacers Eastern Conference second-round NBA postseason series. Who wins?

The firepower on this Cavs team is off the charts. Mitchell and Garland are both high-end scorers and creators. Mobley's offense blossomed in the year he won DPOY. Allen provides the rim runs that keep attention and bodies occupied inside. And there's plenty of shooting among the role players around those four.

Three matchups have extended to Game 6s in the NBA playoffs' first round. What does each team need to do to advance or stay alive?````