Melissa Rohlin
FOX Sports NBA writer
It is our favorite time of the year, when the NBA has precedent about all sports, are exciting and boys named Jimmy Butler and Jamal Murray transforming mortals into basketball gods.
It is the play -off time.
The two teams that I think they are on a collision course to meet each other in the NBA Finals Aren’s The Top Seeds in Eithher Conference. I rather think that the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers will be the last teams that stand.
It was not only that Matchup NBA Commissioner Adam Silver’s Dream came out, who offers a huge TV boost, but it would compete the two most of the French French French in the competition, in which the Celtics won 18 championships and the Lakers 17.
This is why I think this will happen.
Things came together for the Celtics at the end of the season, in which 16 of their last 18 games won. They have the second best offensive rating and the fifth best defensive rating in the competition. Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown have come that they can win a championship together. And this team is deep. The only Wildcard of the Celtics is the persistent knee number of Brown, who sidelined him for the last few games of the season, although it apparently will be available this late season.
Last year the Celtics Sailad won through the play -offs and won 16 of their 19 games. I think their path will be light in the same way this time, to the final of the Eastern Conference, where they will probably meet the top placed Cavaliers and will meet Real Be testing. But I see that she is past Donovan Mitchell and Co. come, with the help of their championship experience to nip a team that has really found their identity this season. Really, no other team in the east is a real threat to the Celtics.
Now, for the Lakers.
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Luka Doncic wore the Dallas Mavericks to the final last season and has a sub of the most striking play-offs statistics in the competition, on average 30.9 points, 9.4 rebounds and eight assists about the late season. Now I am going to play alongside LeBron James, who is subtone of the top five MVP opportunities in eight per age, eight directly from 2011 to 2018.
Although Doncic and James have been playing together since February, they have already shown that they have a lot of chemistry. And when the effort is highest, I think we will see how wonderful for linking two of the best basketball genes in the competition can be. And let’s not forget that Austin Reaves have transformed you this season from an undone in a star. He is suddenly part of a big three and has come that he supplements the game of Doncic enormously, lifts detractors who wonder whether the addition of Doncic Reaves would make superfluous. In reality, the opposite happened, with Reaves, Doncic and James playing masterfully from each other and create nightmares for defense.
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The west is a lot than the east, so let’s go this potential path to the final, which should be much bumpy than the road of Celtics.
I believe that the biggest challenge of the Lakers in the West would be the Golden State Warriors, not the best placed Oklahoma City Thunder. James, Doncic and Reaves vs. Steph Curry, Jimmy Butler and Drayond Green Wouled Be Wild, so that the best in all six players comes to the fore.
Although Oklahoma City has had a season for the books, and don’t think they are ready for the bright lights and extreme pressure associated with winning on the largest stage. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander gets his points, but in the play-offs the team wins that most players play well. And although the Thunder is deep, the question is whether boys who are not called Shai will rise after the necessary level for this team to really go far. Regarding the nuggets, they recently gave the Lakers many problems, so that they are beaten out of the conference final in 2023 and the first round of the play -offs last season, but I think the Adion of Doncic looks very different, with the Lakers finally the better of the nuggets. Not to mention, the Nuggets are a bit motionless after Eir old coach Michael Malone was recently fire.
So, Mr. Silver, here is to hope that you will get your TV rating Bonanza, and fans of basketball get a matchup that will breathe new life in one of the greatest sport rivalry of all time.
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