Dominance in the NBA Playoffs is often about how convincingly you win. These championship teams steamrolled their way through ...

and lost in the Eastern Conference finals in seven games the other year. The Celtics finished with the best record in the NBA last season, but are far from that so far this season, sitting five ...

Here's what the playoffs would look like if the season ended today: * Clinched playoffs ** Clinched division *** Clinched conference Sixteen teams in total make the NBA playoffs, eight teams from ...

Duke’s stream of NBA-ready standouts used smothering defense and other options on offense to paper over Cooper Flagg’s rough ...

But before the best 16 teams in the NBA start battling for the Larry O'Brien Trophy, the final participants have to ... 7 and ...

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder, the leaders to win the Western Conference, are now the favorites to win the NBA Championship. Following the Thunder out West are the Denver ...

OKC leads the NBA in defensive rating and is fourth in offensive rating. But the Thunder have not made the Western Conference Finals since 2016 and we can’t assume they will represent the West ...

Unlike the East, the No. 1 seed in the West has gone to the Finals six times in the last 10 years. The No. 2 seed has gone twice, and the No. 3 seed and No. 5 seed have each gone once.