The NBA Playoffs are much different than the NBA regular season and for good reason. Over the course of an 82-game season, or in this year’s case, a 72-game season, guys just cannot focus all of their attention night-in and night-out on their opponents and with injuries and rest being a major concern nowadays, the level of competition during the regular season is down slightly.
However, the NBA Playoffs year-in and year-out present us with some of the best basketball games we have ever seen and this year has been no different so far!
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The Play-In Tournament this year has been a major success and as a result, it has every single NBA fan locked-in and ready for a dramatic ride to crown a champion!
With the 8-seeds in both conference to be decided over the next couple of nights and the true first-round of the playoffs beginning Saturday afternoon, it is time to start forecasting some of these series and talking about not only who has a chance to win it all, but who has a chance to possibly shatter the dreams of some teams in the first-round.
That’s right, we are talking “underdogs” today and more specifically, the three teams with the best chance to pull off an upset in the first-round. Let’s dive right in and take a look at who could shock the NBA world and pull off the biggest upsets of the first-round.
