The 2024 NBA Playoffs are Going to Be INSANE...

What's

going

on? I'm back here today with another video on the

2024

NBA playoff bracket which is now scheduled for game 82 of the season on Sunday, where all 30 teams played, there was a lot of drama, only five teams were caught. place where everyone else could switch places and a lot of movement ended up happening and ultimately I think it resulted in an almost perfect group. This will be perhaps the best NBA

playoffs

of all time, at least one of the best we've seen. For a while, so many fantastic matchups, so many narratives, so many fantastic stories reminiscent of earlier in the season.

It's amazing, this is

going

to be a crazy

playoffs

and I'm really excited, so I want to keep going and do well. Here right now I give you a little preview of what the group could look like, what I'm looking for in each matchup and why it will be such a special postseason. Starting in the Western Conference there was a three-tie for first place today and finally the Oklahoma City Thunder with a victory take the only place, the Nuggets get two with a victory and the Minnesota Timberl fall to three with a loss today against Phoenix, the Clippers and the Mavericks take four and five, that same Suns team gets number six, the Pelicans get seventh, the Lakers get eight and the kings and warriors finish at 9 and 10 more in the Pelicans tournament versus Lakers is going to be really interesting, this Pelicans team has been great all year.

It's been a little hit and miss lately with Brandon Ingram injured, but now Brandon Ingram is coming back. He returned in this game today against the Lakers where they were finally defeated, helping the Lakers get to the 8C overturn in that 910th game. but the Pelicans will have a chance at home to go ahead and get that win back. It's going to be a really fun game, especially when you consider the story of 80 playing against his former team in New Orleans and Brandon Ingram having a chance to take down his old squad and move on and get some revenge here.

I think it will be a great matchup. I'm excited to see the battle between Zion Williams and attack from below against Anthony Davis, what can LeBron do in this? homecoming format in the winter, we've seen it here a couple of times, it always does the unfortunate part for these two teams: the winner has to face the Denver Nuggets, who are still a giant team, they are the reigning champions, so which is not the best reward. but hey at least you don't have to play in a loser homecoming game right away, bat like the Kings and Warriors do, this will be a really fun game too, these two teams gave us probably the best last year series. of the first round, one of the best series of the playoff period with their seven game matchup, the Sacramento Kings end up getting home field advantage, that crowd will be loud and ridiculous, but the Warriors won their last year in the seventh game, where Curry had a 50 piece and Steph has a chance to move on and go out again and keep his season alive.

If the Warriors lose this, it will be a huge blow for them that could signal the end of this dynasty we've seen for so long. while the Kings felt like they were 3-9, they can't afford to lose this game, they really want to get back into the playoffs, they don't want to be just an ear out before falling again. in the lottery, so there's a lot on the line for those two teams and of course the winner of the void will face the loser of the Pelicans and the Lakers to take on the Oklahoma City Thunder, who you know as a Thunder fan.

I keep seeing people say, "It's going to be a team that anyone can get past, that they're going to get angry, they're going to feel humiliated, this Thunder team is special. Top five in offense, top five in defense, 57 wins on the season, winning a division that had the Nuggets and the Timberwolves." they're the youngest team to ever have a one-position team, the youngest team to win 55+ games, they have an MVP type guy in Shay. I rambled on about thunder a lot this season. I think whoever they go up against, it's going to be a really fun series. if it's Sacramento, it's a battle between two incredible guards and Shay, plus Dear and Fox, would be sabonis versus hush-hush talk with the Warriors, which would be a great closing-circle moment after the Warriors, for Of course, they will take down the Thunder in the playoffs in 2016 Thunder has the opportunity to go ahead and announce the beginning of their era and the end of the Warriors that the Lakers face is something that many people look forward to if they end up in that place that would be really fun LeBron and AD, the old guard taking on the new and if it's the Pelicans, you know, you see Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram, a young duo taking on the young big three of Shay Chad and jayon Williams, there's so many possible fun confrontations.

I'm really excited as a Thunder fan. I'll probably attend the first two games. I can not wait. Then, in the rest of the Western Conference, the matchup we've known has been coming for a long time. The one that has been solidified the longest is Clippers versus Mavericks and this one almost always felt destined once the Mavericks started moving up the standings and the Clippers solidified in fourth place it felt like Destiny of course these two The teams have played twice in the previous playoffs and the Clippers won both times, once in six games and once in seven games I think, but this time Lucas got a lot more help, he has Kyrie Irving, a great supporting cast behind him. around, they have been one of the best teams in the world.

The league lately is the best Lucas has played in his career, maybe he'll end up winning MVP, at least he'll finish in the top three and for the Clippers they made the big trade for James Harden early in the season, they looked unstoppable for a long time. of the year and then they calmed down towards the end, now they got some momentum back, but at the same time Kawhi Leonard hasn't played in the month of April, we don't know if he'll be ready to play. In the first game, if he comes back, he will be 100%. He's the typical injury bug that always seems to bite the Clippers this time of year, but if they're healthy, Kawai is one of the best playoff players in NBA history.

Paul George. and James Harden will of course face Luca Donic and Kyrie Irving as the other duo. James Harden and Kyrie played together in Brooklyn recently. The potential for the Mavericks to finally overcome this demon and maybe go to the Western Conference Finals or even Plus, there are so many stories in the series, this is probably the one I'm most looking forward to in the first round, just as a overall objective perspective for basketball fans, it will be special. Can't wait for those awesome Hoops, I hope. Qui is healthy because him against Luca will be a battle of two of the best playoff players in recent NBA history that will close the West in the 36th matchup, we have Minnesota Timberl and the Phoenix Suns.

This one will also be very, very fun, Phoenix. Of course, disappointed in the year in which they seek to be among the top three and four seeds with Bradley Beown alongside Deon Booker. Kevin Durant didn't finish that way, but despite having a really tough schedule to finish the year, they were able to accumulate. They got some wins and went off plan and faced Minnesota, who they've been very good against this season. With their victory today, they beat Minnesota in their three meetings and won all three games by double. digits, so maybe this is a fair matchup for Phoenix, maybe this is the ideal opponent and for the Timberwolves it's a little worrying that you have to play this team in the first round, especially since Carl Anthony Towns is still working on He's back from injury, maybe he'll look a lot better after a week off before the series, but it's a little worrying, however, they have Anthony Edwards, who was incredible in the playoffs last year, a great momentum in those games. but Kevin Durant and Deon Booker have done some special things in the playoffs on their own.

This is a really fun series that I could see a bit of potential for upset. I'm not saying the wolves are going to lose. I need to break it. down a little bit more before the team officially, but I think this one could be very close and I wouldn't be surprised at all if it went to seven games with either team winning in that scenario, moving on to the Eastern Conference, we knew there were the Boston Celtics . It looked like it was going to be the sole seed basically for the entire season and they would play between one and four teams in the play and the Bulls, the Hawks, the Sixers or the Miami Heat, the Sixers and the Heat would end up in the game. in the seven eight spots after the Sixers went on a great winning streak to end the season.

I think it was eight games with Embiid coming back and looking great was enough to keep going and knock them off the plane because the teams ahead of them were still winning. today as well and sets him up for a showdown with the Miami Heat, who have some history and of course lost to them in the playoffs several times. Jimmy Butler was six years earlier in that whole moment where he said, "You know them all." Picking Tobias Harris over me after beating them in a game is going to be heated now that the Sixers have home field advantage and I think with Embiid's return they will have the advantage to be the favorites, but as you know Al The Miami Heat team doesn't care about being the loser, the favorite, they don't care where they are, they are going to move forward and give it their all, we will see if Jimmy appears in the playoffs as he normally does.

We're going to need a great performance from Bio against Joel, but this will be an incredible game, perhaps the most exciting game of all of these and we already have a lot of great games in the 910 matchup. Bulls versus Hawks, another matchup we knew was coming for a while now, I can't say I'm the most excited about it. I mean, it'll be cool to see, you know, Demaro Rose and Kobe White take on young Deonte Murray and there. There are big implications for the Hawks if they lose this game, you know, do they trade Trey and young Deon Murray in the offseason, even if they win this game, if they don't make the playoffs, what happens next and then the winner plays the game ? loser of the other, I imagine that the Sixers in heat, in some order, will end up making the playoffs and whoever wins the first game will play the New York Knicks, who arrive at the place after a win today and can move up to the place.

With the Bucs losing to the magic, Jaylen Brunson carried them a lot here at the end of the season, he made a legitimate case for all-NBA first team, not Julius Randle in the series he did during the year, but even without him, he had Ojen Anobi, who is blocked. down Isaiah Hartstein, who has been an elite defender Mitchell Robinson Josh Hart out there Dante dant chenzo Jay Brunson, of course, being an NBA first team, second team, fringe type of guy, he's going to be a ridiculously difficult opponent to face. I have to go to the garden, so although they are missing an Allstar level player like Randall, this is still a team that I think can have a great performance thanks to that stout defense and the star power of a guy like Brunson, so no it matters. who ends up kissing there I think it's going to be an incredible series, whether it's Sixers Knicks or Heat Nicks, another one that I could easily see in seven games either way, that the Sixers team in particular doesn't sleep on them.

I know people doubt the Sixers have fallen apart in the past, but with the way they are seeing how great they were early in the season if they get some of that rhythm back. I think they're a team that can sneak into the Conference Finals if they really put it all together as far as who plays the Celtics, I think both teams can give them a little bit of a tougher series than they expected, whether it's the Sixers or the Heat, if it's the Bulls or the Hawks, the Celtics are going to sweep them very hard. very easily, but I think Philly vs.

Boston or Miami vs. Boston could be fun series. I'm not picking any of them over Boston, but it still might be a little tougher first-round matchup than the Celtics expected when they escaped with a seed and then below them in the 4-5 matchup, you have Cleveland against the magic, which is going to be if you're looking for 90's type physical basketball, that's what it's going to be, the magic is one of the most ridiculous defenses I've ever seen in a minute with Jaylen Suggs with Jonathan Isaac who has become one one of the best defenders in the league lately, you have a Vagner wend Carter friend, all these guys that can go ahead and lock you down Jamal MOS has He did a great job with that team and Cleveland, on the other hand, intentionally lost today against the Hornets .

It looked like they would end up getting a chance to play magic, so they went for this match. If they lose here, it will be a second year of a disappointing first outing against a team without much experience and I think that could very well lead Donovan Mitchell to say "hey, I'm not extending this offseason, you can go ahead and trade me or I will go". simplyI'm walking at the end of the year, this is a vitally important postseason for the Cavaliers and the magic is playing with house money, they have nothing to lose, which could take some pressure off them.

I think this is going to be a really fun, low-scoring physical series that will go pretty deep into the number of possible games and finally for game 36 in the East, we have Milwaukee against IND Indiana, another series that seemed destined to happen if you want the opposite. That Cavs Magic series you want. High pace, high scoring games, you'll want to watch this series.especially since there's a bit of bad blood here, these two teams have had issues for almost the entire season, dating back to the season tournament when the Pacers beat them and I think they were the quarter-finals, could have been the semi-finals you had.

Tires Halberton mocking Dame Time celebration after making a big shot touching his wrist, there was the game where Giannis set the franchise record for points scored and the Pacers didn't give him the game ball and he was running toward the boys and there was all that. situation I know the Pacers and Buckman have been at odds all season on my Twitter timeline, there's a lot of contention here, at least among the fan bases. I don't know about the teams themselves, but they definitely have a history throughout the year and now they have a grudge match or grudge series that needs to move forward and resolve most of the circumstances.

I would probably pick the Bucs to win the series, but it's definitely not that easy because first, the Pacers won most of the matchups throughout the season between the two teams and two, we don't know what's going on with this tedak kmo, he He hasn't played since that calf injury, we don't have a schedule yet. Jo Rivers said he hopes to return for the playoffs, but obviously. that's not a guarantee or anything, so if Giannis doesn't play suddenly, things get very scary for Milwaukee, they haven't been very good to doctor RS. Giannis has worn them practically all season.

He had the best season of him, perhaps of all time. him desperately in the series, especially since facing the Pacers feels like a matchup he could take a lot of advantage from. I don't know if Dame Chris and Brooke will be enough to get over the hump when facing this. The Pacers team that also has nothing to lose and has been waiting for this series all season. I think this is one that could really go either way if Giannis comes back, the Bucs will probably win, but if he misses a couple of games, no. I come back later in the series or it doesn't appear at all.

There's a real chance the Bucs would fight in the first round, which would be disastrous. I feel like I'm a little short on what it would be for dollars if they did. a first outing in Giannis and Dame's first year as a duo, so there's a lot riding on that series as well, like almost all of these series have a lot on the line, whether the Thunder or the Celtics try. to prove that they're not frauds at the top of their conferences like some people think they are the Clippers trying to maybe make a run for the last shot with Kawaii and Paul George in town, the Mavericks trying to take advantage of this Luca Kyrie duo and how far they have come in the second half of the season the Cavs are trying to convince Donovan Mitchell to stay the Wolves are trying to take advantage of one of the best seasons in franchise history The Suns don't have many years with these three greats they have, They have to try to win as soon as possible nuggets, let's repeat, the list goes on and on, everyone has something to prove or several things to prove in these playoffs, there is a lot at stake, the group is incredible, there are so many confrontations everything is perfect , it's going to be some crazy playoffs.

I can't wait for this all this week. I'm going to be posting playoff previews for certain series that I'm particularly interested in and if you want to see them, I'll probably post them. like a playoff hot takes video and of course towards the end of the week I will leave my official NBA playoff predictions when the plan starts to wrap up reactions to the games, stuff like that, there will be a ton of content on the channel for the next week and really throughout the playoffs, so if you want to watch it, go ahead and subscribe.

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I'm not exaggerating, it will be really exciting. I am enthusiastic. I appreciate you looking at me like always. See you later. A real one. Say it again.