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I am putting my bet on Miami Heat on one of the first two games in Boston. Maybe Game 2. Then, I will bet the 2 more in Miami for the Heat. Game 5 will be forced by the Celtics for 2-3 and Game 6 is where I think it will end in favor of the Miami Heat. But that is just my prediction as I think the Heat are stronger with Adebayo and Butler combined and they have a deep bench too with good defensive rating. This will not just be a battle of coach's strategy and adjustments, but stamina will also be a huge factor to win the game.

Source: ESPN

How many wants to put money on Miami heat? 

What on gods green earth is wrong with Ja Morant?! I mean I get being young a dumb, I was once there, but I was never this stupid. After all he went through, and he’s back to holding guns up on Instagram Live, man..he doesn’t seem to be the brightest.


I follow this account on instagram that makes cool custom sports cards. Here’s what he shared today lol. If you’ve seen  “ Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood”, this will make sense. If not, highly recommend watching this movie.

Right, Tatum just peaked right about that the last 2 games against the Sixers. He has struggled in game 6 in the road, but he keeps on shooting until he got one and that's what he needed. After that he also take over game 6 and win the game for them. But on the other hand, game 7 was different at their homecourt, he didn't have a bad shooting night that he needs to overcome. Every time he had the ball you know that he is going to shot it, whoever is in front of him, including Joel Embiid.


That's how it is though, Suns getting the best record a few seasons ago, Mike Budenholzer fired after giving the Bucks their championship.


Nuggets though is the clear favorite going on game 1. Let's see how the Lakers will do, if they can steal one just like what they did on their series against the Warriors, taking game 1, it will be a big psychological victory for them.

Heat have much more fight in them then sixers have.  As a knicks fan watching them relentlessly hit the boards, get every 50/50 ball, make the right reads, etc over and over again was impressive to watch.   I do think the Celtics will come out of this one but it's not going to be a cakewalk for them.

It is really rewarding if it is toward a positive outcome but if that is not really towards a positive outcome then it is a high risk, Right now the Phoenix Suns say goodbye for now for the next season, most of the eliminated team, is surely working their way for training and some are looking forward to the trade in the next season, but sure let's focus on the game at hand the Los Angeles Lakers VS the Denver Nuggets for me


We can not say for sure but if the Lakers would trade him because of what he has done with Draymond Green getting ejected like that but it is the least the Lakers could do for him was to watch him get ejected for a heated taunting to Greens' face, well after the match he posted on Instagram "WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS!!! 💜💛 One of the biggest competitors there is !!! @money23green A lot of respect for you 💐 HOF"

Well, at least he is sports after getting ejected from the court,


A lot of distinct things happen from that game on and I think Jalen Brunson got a lot of experience from losing against the Miami Heat, and surely Jimmy Butler and the team aswell, it is basketball after all and you will never know what may happen with a game just like the Warriors game with the Lakers it is one interesting game and surely Warriors fan like me will think that the game was fixed because of the number of FreeThrows that the Lakers got but Lakers is a diving team to the net that they got so much free throws, but yeah it is a fun topic but still, the Lakers is a deserving team so I was really cool about it,

I'm hoping they don't I don't need to see the same 4 tes cycle through the finals over and over again.  I'd love to see Denver play in the finals.  See what jokic can do on the grand stage of the NBA.  Cmon who doesn't want to see that besides Laker/Bron fans. 

And this has brought up that the bubble doesn't really count for the Lakers champ title. I do hope that this is going to clear all of those doubters against the bubble and even against the Lakers.

Everything is possible as of now and we just have to wait until the games are all started. For now, everything is going to be a speculation and this is a nice coincidence that we've never thought of.

That last statement will be hard to answer as both teams in these two different series already have players which is not part
of the old squad, maybe the main cast was still the same, but role players already changed up.

Again, it is an interesting match up a nice gift for the fans as we all know that all teams who reached up to this far are teams who really exceed.

They win their respective series with tough competitors and were now able to play in the conference finals.

Tatum with the highest scoring game 7 performance was something to witness. I think they’ll be able to take Miami and win the East.

I also saw the Suns got rid of their coach. I think it was him or Ayton at this point…

Looking forward to some more playoff basketball tomorrow after a night off tonight. Hopefully the Lakers can beat Denver and repeat what happened in the bubble.

There is definitely a big favorites there and Celtics will do their best, Heat is great but only when Jimmy Butler gets it going, he is a magnificent player that can win a series but lets remember that it is not that black and white. This is one on one remake of the bubble finals, and there we saw Heat won, so there is definitely a chance for Heat to win it again, nobody can deny such a fact and I believe that it will be something wonderful to see.

I think it is important to remember that the best thing to do in this case would be just focusing on per game basis, lets see how it will look at first 2 games, and then you can bet a lot easier because you would be able to see the difference, or maybe even then it won't be easy to predict. I feel like Celtics are the favorites, but Heat is not too far behind.

Yes, both teams that has managed to get on this phase is not entirely  because of luck because they worked so hard to earn the place they have now. That said, games will be more interesting to watch and the intensity will increase as well because in this phase it will determine which team will go towards the Finals and will have the chance to earn another ring while some of them will be their first as well.

History has been made for both Western and Eastern Conference because they both have teams that are still alive since play-in tournament up until now. If this is a rematch from the bubble then maybe we will see another rematch when it comes to the Finals, what do you think folks? Is it possible?

I still think that Stephen Curry is hard carrying the team almost every time they play. Often if Stephen Curry does not score big the golden state warriors end up losing the game. I am not saying that the other players on the team are absolutely worthless. But it is also true that without Stephen Curry it was going to be really bad for the Golden State Warriors. In almost every achievement of the Golden State Warriors, Stephen Curry has a big say. I am not saying that he is the only reason for the Golden State Warriors to win. But he is certainly a very big reason.



The team should think about getting rid of the problems that they have right now. Stephen Curry is certainly going to stay on the team. There is no doubt about that. But there has been a lot of problems going on in the team regarding some others like Poole. I think they have to fix the team chemistry. Any troublemaker has to go from the team in my opinion.

I agree with almost all of the points you have made except the blowout game comment about Boston game. First half of the game was surely competitive and I thought Philly might finally win some accomplishment. But as you have pointed out, Tatum was amazing and 3rd period was crazy. In the first half Harden was kind of good and Embid was trying. But second half Boston just impossible to contend. I also agree with your comments about Embiid. He has quite a number of problems on the defensive side. I respect his offensive skills because it is versatile and effective. But he can't be at the same level of other superstars in my opinion. And he is already at 29 years old. There so many stars in Nba history that were unsuccessful in the playoffs. Embiid probably will be remembered as one of them.

Great couple of conference finals await us. I see the chances of Celtics quite high.  

Both have that mindset that they needed to bring all the best from their squad, the same goal to move forward and win the ECF and then
win the NBA finals.

I also see that angle where both teams are really hunger as we can see from the performances of their superstars. All are well coordinated and
all are really contributing the way they are needed by the team.

Though only one can win and make it to the finals, so let see if how both teams will try every knowledge and skills they've got,
from the coaches to each player that will have that chance playing the game.

Their last match was not really good and the Heat will not gonna miss this chance to get back to competing for the NBA championship this year and so as the Celtics. it will be an interesting game and might gonna also end up in game 7 because these teams right now are on fire because they have their star players playing well and it could be their last time to get back to this point so they will gonna play more intensely than ever before to get back to the NBA finals especially the Boston Celtics cause they kinda mess up last year.

I like that analysis, Celtics got a lot of talents, but Heat always surprises us.

Personally, I like the match up as the game will not only be the core, but it is more on team efforts and good play executions,
both teams are known help each other, both offense and defense. They are all willing to share and really give everything to
win the game, so it's an interesting rematch of the bubble let see who's going to win this ECF finals.

Jimmy Butler wort nightmare once again on Eastern conference is fighting against Boston that keeps them knocking out. Actually, I don’t know how Heat can beat Boston with complete roster. The last time Heat face them was they are no match at all since Butler is only consistent scorer but can he maintain that performance with Boston that has a lot of consistent scorer player.

Jimmy need to double his effort if he wants to beat Celtics since this team is far different on Bucks that only relying to Giannis. Tatum has a very bad game most of their matches against Philly but still Boston manage to recover and beat Philly.

It wasn't easy for other teams, but it was easy for them. If you still remember, they did the same to the Bucks last season, although in the ECF. And now, they have repeated their dominance in the semifinals. Game 7 was a complete domination by the Celtics, and Tatum had a big bounce back after his not-so-good performance in Game 6. Now, it will be the Celtics versus the Heat. This is certainly an exciting series, and although the Heat had the easiest journey to the ECF, it's the Celtics who are the favorites to win.

Yes, we know that the Celtics will be the favorite in this series, not just every game. But just like in the Sixers series there could be unexpected results, like Sixers stealing game 1 for them. But they were able to get it back and win it in 7, so not every easy. And as we are now in the conference finals, it will be harder against the veteran Miami Heat. We thought that they are done, but this experience players specially Jimmy Butler still has one aces down in their sleeves and will everything they got against the Celtics. so it could really be six or seven series again.