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NBA playoffs 2025 predictions: the winner, key players and dark horses

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66% Informative

Is the regular season in crisis? Absolutely not. Could it stand to be a little shorter? The real problem the NBA faces is, in my opinion, a PR one.

Disney , NBC and Amazon Prime Video did not pay $ 76bn for this product.

The answer might be structural: tweak the rules to restore physicality.

If defense matters again, maybe the games will too.

Houston Rockets are underdogs against Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference.

New York Knicks are a fancy score-at-will side minus the edgy intangibles their fans lauded a year ago .

Los Angeles Clippers are a scorching hot No 5 seed who went 18-3 with eight straight wins to finish the regular season .

Kawhi Leonard is looking like the Leonard of old.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is the odds-on MVP favorite for Oklahoma City Thunder .

LeBron James will be the most important player in the postseason until he retires.

VR Score

60

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English

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35

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