2025 NBA Season

[wheelz1200]

Bucks vs Celtics will be the greatest series of this NBA play-offs season, or it should be like that.

Hard to think at a prediction in this series but I do hope we will see a best of 7 and probably Bucks will win if they have all the players on the court as Celtics proved to us that they can beat anyone anytime  but Bucks is a different team. Even if they triple Giannis , he's so strong and big that he will still get free trows ...so you see , it's very hard to stop a player like him when he is fully driving towards the basket.

Disagree on that.  The Memphis and Timberwolves is the series of the playoffs.  I hope wolves win Friday so we can see a game 7.  Both very young teams that are up and coming.  We might be watching a series that will be a yearly experience.  I hope the celts and Bucks live up to it but as of now this first series has been amazing.

[darxiaomi]

How much longer is Nikola Jokic going to be in Denver knowing that he can't win anything there?
Another beating in the playoof suffered by him playing a great game and his teammates being a counterweight

Hyland 0 % of field goals

[Jating]

How much longer is Nikola Jokic going to be in Denver knowing that he can't win anything there?
Another beating in the playoof suffered by him playing a great game and his teammates being a counterweight

Hyland 0 % of field goals

Well his number 2 and number 3 guy are injured, Murray and Porter Jr. So obviously it's going to be a big task for him to carry the team with only Gordon helping him out but inconsistent in this series.

I think he will stay with the Nuggets and see if Murray and Porter getting healthy. It will be a good and very dangerous team in the West next season.

[Yaunfitda]

Bucks vs Celtics will be the greatest series of this NBA play-offs season, or it should be like that.

I do agree, I think Giannis and Tatum can cancel each other in the series. So it will be up to the role players as to who is going to be the second option.

Hard to think at a prediction in this series but I do hope we will see a best of 7 and probably Bucks will win if they have all the players on the court as Celtics proved to us that they can beat anyone anytime  but Bucks is a different team. Even if they triple Giannis , he's so strong and big that he will still get free trows ...so you see , it's very hard to stop a player like him when he is fully driving towards the basket.

Who wouldn't like a good series extending to game 7? yeah, we like to see that but I think the series will have to end in 6 games. Again the x factor here is how the teams are going to contribute both in offense and defense and I think the Bucks has a deeper bench.

[Joca97]

How much longer is Nikola Jokic going to be in Denver knowing that he can't win anything there?
Another beating in the playoof suffered by him playing a great game and his teammates being a counterweight

Hyland 0 % of field goals

Well this is just a waste of Nikola Jokic talent honestly. The guy is so brutal there that he carries them the entire league and playoff series. But you can now see that he cannot play alone. Their two good players next to Jokic are injured and Denver Nuggets didnt do anything to replace them. Nikola Jokic better find a new club where he can try and go far in playoffs and maybe win it.

[ultrloa]

How much longer is Nikola Jokic going to be in Denver knowing that he can't win anything there?
Another beating in the playoof suffered by him playing a great game and his teammates being a counterweight

Hyland 0 % of field goals

Well this is just a waste of Nikola Jokic talent honestly. The guy is so brutal there that he carries them the entire league and playoff series. But you can now see that he cannot play alone. Their two good players next to Jokic are injured and Denver Nuggets didnt do anything to replace them. Nikola Jokic better find a new club where he can try and go far in playoffs and maybe win it.

Even if the other players didn't contribute much well on this series still we can still say that he have lethal line up its just the luck is not on their side and maybe they should do more better next season. Jokic need more offensive support to his teammates so that he will not get exhausted to much on remaining on their games. But since they are now eliminated much better if they study how their execution went off vs Warriors so that they can learn something and apply and enhance that on next season.

[Reid]

Now it gets curious. Who will stop Giannis from small ball Celtics team?
Williams, Horford, Theis, Williams III? It should be someone who could equal the speed of Giannis and so does the strength. His dominance at the paint is not the question but how he can be stopped at gaining momentum before entering the paint is the big task.
While Middleton is out, this could be the best time for the Celtics to take advantage and steal one win from the Bucks home.

[goinmerry]

Their two good players next to Jokic are injured and Denver Nuggets didnt do anything to replace them.

Don't tell me, you mean trading those players? Is that how a team should treat their main starters?

Just replace them without hesitation because they are injured lol.

We are not talking about these 2 players always being injured but give them time to recover. Denver Nuggets already know they have handicapped these playoffs and for sure, they want to come back stronger next season with a complete and healthy lineup.

It's a different scenario where a team wasn't really able to use that player/s for long because of injury.

[DukeNickle]

Two more series ended last night. Bucks managed to defeat Bulls once again by 116-100 and they ended the series successfully by 4-1. It is the same for Warriors also against Nuggets. They won another game by 102-98 and finished the job by 4-1 in total. Jokic played just great during the whole series and he was perfect in this game too. But his incredible performance with 30 points, 19 rebounds and 8 assists still wasn't enough for a win here. And now we have a matchup in next round already: Bucks - Celtics. Let's see how it goes.

[OgNasty]

Two more series ended last night. Bucks managed to defeat Bulls once again by 116-100 and they ended the series successfully by 4-1. It is the same for Warriors also against Nuggets. They won another game by 102-98 and finished the job by 4-1 in total. Jokic played just great during the whole series and he was perfect in this game too. But his incredible performance with 30 points, 19 rebounds and 8 assists still wasn't enough for a win here. And now we have a matchup in next round already: Bucks - Celtics. Let's see how it goes.

Bucks and Celtics should be a good series.  I am hoping for the Bucks, because I think it would be nice to see a 76ers and Bucks matchup at some point in the playoffs.  The Celtics played great against the Nets though and Jayson Taytum is on another level at the moment so it won't be as easy of a series win as I'd like it to be.  Especially considering Middleton is still dealing with injury issues last I checked.

Jokic is a great player.  Once he gets his 2 main guys back from injury for next year, I think they're going to be able to make a good run.  Injuries have really hurt this great young team and I hope they have a healthy playoff run before the team gets broken up or Jokic gets too old.

[carlisle1]

Now it gets curious. Who will stop Giannis from small ball Celtics team?
Williams, Horford, Theis, Williams III? It should be someone who could equal the speed of Giannis and so does the strength. His dominance at the paint is not the question but how he can be stopped at gaining momentum before entering the paint is the big task.
While Middleton is out, this could be the best time for the Celtics to take advantage and steal one win from the Bucks home.

A team effort to limit or to try limiting Giannis productions, not an easy task to whoever will be assigned to guard Giannis

but I'm pretty sure the coach will find a remedy to give him some tough game, just like how they deal with KD and the Nets they keep

Moving and not to allow players to have an easy basket. If they can find that same momentum, while Middleton is still resting, Celtics

should do everything to snatch a win from the bucks home. It will be a good advantage from this series.

[qwertyup23]

The final game between GSW and Nuggets wast just very thrilling to watch. During the first three (3) quarters, Denver was leading the scoreboard where they took advantage of the turnovers made by the Warriors. But on the last quarter, Warriors was able to bounce back and secure the victory by the efforts combined of Curry and Thompson.

Just also want to give a huge props for Jokic for putting up monstrous and dominating numbers on the paint. With 25+ points and 20+ rebounds and 9+ assists, no one in the league can put those numbers and be effective on the paint. Warriors may not be able to control the Joker, but they took advantage of their "strength in numbers."

[Reid]

Now it gets curious. Who will stop Giannis from small ball Celtics team?
Williams, Horford, Theis, Williams III? It should be someone who could equal the speed of Giannis and so does the strength. His dominance at the paint is not the question but how he can be stopped at gaining momentum before entering the paint is the big task.
While Middleton is out, this could be the best time for the Celtics to take advantage and steal one win from the Bucks home.

A team effort to limit or to try limiting Giannis productions, not an easy task to whoever will be assigned to guard Giannis

but I'm pretty sure the coach will find a remedy to give him some tough game, just like how they deal with KD and the Nets they keep

Moving and not to allow players to have an easy basket. If they can find that same momentum, while Middleton is still resting, Celtics

should do everything to snatch a win from the bucks home. It will be a good advantage from this series.

This ain't Durant anymore that changed his play method from an unpredictable in and out player to just being the mid-range and long shot player.
Giannis mostly attacks the paint and shooting the ball from the outside is just used if the choices becomes limited. Yes, I can see ways for the Celtics to stop him before he could even make a move but the problem will be inside with Bobby, Brook, and Giannis controlling the paint.
Celtics cannot go small ball anymore with those three or else they won't even have a chance for a rebound.
I am guessing a lot of foul trouble and Giannis might be practicing his free throws now.  

[darxiaomi]

How much longer is Nikola Jokic going to be in Denver knowing that he can't win anything there?
Another beating in the playoof suffered by him playing a great game and his teammates being a counterweight

Hyland 0 % of field goals

Well this is just a waste of Nikola Jokic talent honestly. The guy is so brutal there that he carries them the entire league and playoff series. But you can now see that he cannot play alone. Their two good players next to Jokic are injured and Denver Nuggets didnt do anything to replace them. Nikola Jokic better find a new club where he can try and go far in playoffs and maybe win it.

This is what I'm talking about, the only thing they did was give more minutes to ...... AUSTIN RIVERS for God's sake just in this last game I sat him on the bench, and those who brought a disaster from outside, bryn forbes and demarcus cousins

[agustina2]

Now it gets curious. Who will stop Giannis from small ball Celtics team?
Williams, Horford, Theis, Williams III? It should be someone who could equal the speed of Giannis and so does the strength. His dominance at the paint is not the question but how he can be stopped at gaining momentum before entering the paint is the big task.
While Middleton is out, this could be the best time for the Celtics to take advantage and steal one win from the Bucks home.

Maybe they will just try their usual defense. If they were able to defend him in a Bucks possession for example, and Giannis failed his attempt to make a goal, then it's good. If they were not able to stop him and made a score, then so be it. What the Boston Celtics will do now is to match his offensive goals by making sure every of their possession is a sure score. In simple terms, when Giannis made a bucket, the Celtics has to make a bucket too.

The Bucks are 4-1 against the Celtics in their last playoffs meet and it means, the Celtics really didn't know how to counter when Giannis becomes a freak. But who knows Celtics have changed now and they have some ways now how to stop Giannis.

[harizen]

Khris Middleton to miss the Boston Celtics series with Grade 2 MCL sprain

It's now official that Khris Middleton won't make it to their series match against the Boston Celtics because of Grade 2 MCL Sprain.

And to add up for that, he even won't make it to the Conference Finals if ever Milwaukee Bucks will beat the Boston Celtics. This is really unfortunate and I don't want to see these injury-related issues as it changes the playing level of a certain team. It's good to watch these teams competing with each other at 100% healthy status and not with a handicap.

Middleton is one of the main pieces on why the Bucks are dominant. But on the positive side, I'm sure that shouldn't be a big disadvantage for them but they should just try to cover the absence of Middleton in every game.

[Turbolinea]

It has been a really easy matchup for Miami Heat so far against Atlanta Hawks. They didn't have much problem in the games they won. And they are in the lead in this series by 3-1. Tonight, they can end this in their home court by making the series 4-1. And I strongly believe that this will happen.

Have you made that conclusion after the news that Buttler will be out in game 5 due to right knee inflammation? Perhaps you didn't even know that. Jimmy has been instrumental for the Heat this series so this injury increase the Hawk's chances to force game 6.

Lowry is also out but good thing coach Spoelstra still has players he could rely on. It's time for the likes of Herro to take over.

I didn't know that, yeah. But still nothing changed for the game 5 and Heat finished the job by 4-1.    But I must admit the fact that it wasn't an easy game this time for Heat. They barely won by 97-94. But this must be able to show that they are playing really strongly as a team even when they have an important player missing. This is a very important thing for a team to be successful I think. I wonder what they will do later in the playoffs. If Sixers win tonight, they are Heat's next opponent.

[dezoel]

I think we could be overreacting a bit. When their two other great players return, Jokic will have all the talent he needs to try and win a title.

Suns do not look to be having any one "superstar", booker is their best player and I can easily say that Jokic is much better than him, CP3 is their second player and yes he had a great career but at this point I would pick Jamal Murray over CP3, and Ayton could be third which I would pick MPJ over. They were just injured that's it, next year when they both come back, they are going to be capable of building a team that could win the title and if not then it is not just a team problem, it is either the coaching or maybe the players.

[Velvet78]

There are three important games tonight and the competition is fired-up for all of those series too. They all are going on 3-2 now. 76ers, Suns and Mavericks are leading their series 3-2 now and they can all finish their job tonight. I think that 76ers and Suns will finish it but I'm not sure about Mavericks. Jazz can carry the series to the seventh game of the series. But hopefully, we can have three competitive and quality games. The playoff round has been going on really nicely so far. I hope this competition level can be maintained until the end.

[arwin100]

Two more series ended last night. Bucks managed to defeat Bulls once again by 116-100 and they ended the series successfully by 4-1. It is the same for Warriors also against Nuggets. They won another game by 102-98 and finished the job by 4-1 in total. Jokic played just great during the whole series and he was perfect in this game too. But his incredible performance with 30 points, 19 rebounds and 8 assists still wasn't enough for a win here. And now we have a matchup in next round already: Bucks - Celtics. Let's see how it goes.

Bucks and Celtics should be a good series.  I am hoping for the Bucks, because I think it would be nice to see a 76ers and Bucks matchup at some point in the playoffs.  The Celtics played great against the Nets though and Jayson Taytum is on another level at the moment so it won't be as easy of a series win as I'd like it to be.  Especially considering Middleton is still dealing with injury issues last I checked.

Yes its good to see a head to head battle between Sixers but the problem is can Bucks able to defeat the fresh legs of Celtics? Maybe the availability of their players will be one of their problem so hopefully no injury will occur to them especially with Middleton and other stars since if they face Celtics without their stars then provably Tatum will just eat them. I'm impress how Tatum improved this season and they has a lot of potential to reach unto finals knowing they are really in good shape this season.