Some thoughts about the NBA Championships

Playoff Predictions:

First Round:

Jazz vs. Grizzlies: Jazz in 4

Clippers vs. Mavs: Mavs in 7

Nuggets vs. Trail Blazers: Nuggets in 5

Suns vs. Lakers: Lakers in 6 (don’t close your browser after this one, please)

76ers vs. Wizards: 76ers in 5

Knicks vs. Hawks: Knicks in 6

Bucks vs. Heat: Bucks in 5

Nets vs. Celtics: Nets in 4

Second Round:

Jazz vs. Mavs: Jazz in 6

Nuggets vs. Lakers: Lakers in 7 (easy win for Nuggets with Jamal Murray)

76ers vs. Knicks: Knicks in 7 (the Knicks have shown they can do this)

Bucks vs. Nets: Nets in 5 (Games of Year right here)

Conference Finals:

Jazz vs. Lakers: Jazz in 6

Knicks vs. Nets: Nets in 5 (NOBODY is going to walk out of the stadiums with functional eardrums after these games WITH limited capacity)

Finals:

Jazz vs. Nets: Nets in 7

All of the analyses that I have seen have hinted at Brooklyn losing and then blah, blah, blah, drown the Nets players in boiling hot water for losing, blah, blah, blah. But are we forgetting that the Nets have the 3 best players of the decade in Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and James Harden? It’s going to very hard for the Nets to lose to any team. It’s like everyone wants the Nets to lose and they’re already heating up that water. Relax, guys, it’s the Nets, the team with 3 players choking their payroll for the next few seasons, and the other players are getting paid peanuts. But, I will jump on the Nets’ slander train for a sentence or two. The Nets are lacking on defense, because the Big 3, Joe Harris, and Blake Griffin aren’t lockdown defenders. Also, unless the Big 3 can jive together and mesh together and not tear each other's eyeballs for rebounds to get a triple-double, they’re in trouble. The Jazz are an all-around amazing team, Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert just solidify that. They have a player in Jordan Clarkson who will be a first scoring option on any other team but is a sixth man here, that should tell you what you need to know.

At least that’s how I see it.