{"id":115785,"date":"2022-04-16T14:54:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T14:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/?p=115785"},"modified":"2022-04-26T15:32:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:32:14","slug":"2022-nba-playoffs-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/2022-nba-playoffs-prediction\/","title":{"rendered":"2021-22 NBA Playoffs Round One Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally, the play-ins are over and now the playoffs proper are upon us. What an unpredictable season it has been.\u00a0 Both the LA teams are out and a poor showing from the Trail Blazers, who looked like they were on the up. Also, we are sure that not many saw the top seeds being then Heat & the Suns! Still, Thunder fans (yes I am one) will be pleased with the Clipper’s loss as it boosts their Draft Lottery chances<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the bracket is now set for round one and our predictions are below. Let’s hope we do better than we did with our pre-season selections!<\/p>\n

Eastern Conference<\/h3>\n

\"NBA<\/p>\n

E1 Miami v <\/strong>E8 Atlanta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prediction Miami 4-1<\/p>\n

E4 Philadelphia v <\/strong>E5 Toronto<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prediction 76ers 4-3<\/p>\n

E3 Milwaukee v <\/strong>E6 Chicago<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prediction Bucks 4-2<\/p>\n

E2 Boston v <\/strong>E7 Brooklyn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prediction Celtics 4-0<\/p>\n

Western Conference<\/h3>\n

\"NBA<\/p>\n

W1 Phoenix v W8 New Orleans<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prediction Suns 4-3<\/p>\n

W4 Dallas v <\/strong>W5 Utah<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prediction Zazz 4-3<\/p>\n

W3 Golden State v <\/strong>W6 Denver<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prediction Warriors 4-1<\/p>\n

W2 Memphis v <\/strong>W7 Minnesota<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prediction Grizzlies 4-3<\/p>\n

This would set up the following rather tasty looking clashes…<\/p>\n

Eastern Conference Semis<\/h3>\n

E1 Miami v <\/strong>E4 Philadelphia<\/strong><\/p>\n

E2 Boston v E3 Milwaukee<\/strong><\/p>\n

Western Conference Semis<\/h3>\n

W1 Phoenix v <\/strong>W5 Utah<\/strong><\/p>\n

W2 Memphis v <\/strong>W3 Golden State <\/strong><\/p>\n

Given our pre-season prediction that the Lakers would win the title, we are far from confident about the above, but did have them beating the Bucks in the final so we could still be half right!<\/p>\n

You can see our pre-season predictions for the Eastern Conference here<\/a> – and our Western predictions<\/a> too – if you really must!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally, the play-ins are over and now the playoffs proper are upon us. What an unpredictable season it has been.\u00a0 Both the LA teams are out and a poor showing from the Trail Blazers, who looked like they were on the up. Also, we are sure that not many saw the top seeds being then…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1814,22],"tags":[1636],"class_list":["post-115785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eastern-conference","category-nba-playoffs","category-western-conference","tag-nba-playoffs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115785"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115793,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115785\/revisions\/115793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}