The ‘24-’25 NBA regular season has come to a conclusion on April 6.
The Cleveland Cavaliers won the Eastern Conference and the Oklahoma City Thunder won the Western Conference.
The Cavaliers, who won 64 games led by Donovan Mitchell, took home the one seed in the Eastern Conference.
While the Thunder, who cruised their way to a 68-win year led by MVP front-runner Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, dominantly took home the one seed in the Western Conference.
Alexander has taken yet another leap in his short NBA career.
Alexander averaged 32.7 points, 5 rebounds and 6.4 assists on 51% shooting from the field.
Alexander is set to win this years MVP award, which would be the Thunder’s third MVP since 2000.
The two-seeded Rockets are a feisty young team that could be very scary to face in the playoffs are scheduled to face either the Golden State Warriors or the Memphis Grizzlies.
The surging Warriors have gone 23-8 since acquiring former Miami star Jimmy Butler at the Trade deadline, are favorites over the scrappy Memphis Grizzlies, led by a motivated Ja Morant.
The reigning NBA champion Boston Celtics claim the two seed in the East, and are set to face either the Orlando Magic or the Atlanta Hawks.
The Celtics who are hopping to be the first back to back finals winners since the 2017-2018 Golden State Warriors.
Celtics stars Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown are hoping to silence the doubters once again proving that their finals win was a fluke championship win.
Atlanta who was carried by Trea Young and the newly emerging Dyson Daniels, are favored over the Magic who despite many disastrous injuries earn the seventh seed.
The Los Angeles Lakers, under new head coach J.J. Reddick, are brought to their first 50-win season since they won the NBA championship in the 2019-2020 season.
The Lakers who are piloted by an aging Lebron James and new lakers star Luka Doncic.
James played exceptionally well for a guy in his 40s, despite this, his 20-year streak of averaging 25 points per game in a season has come to a conclusion.
Doncic and company are set to face the losers of the 2024 Western Conference finals, the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards would end the regular season having made 320 three-pointers, which would edge out Malik Beasley for the league lead in three-pointers made.
The Timberwolves are heading into their first playoff game without Karl Anthony Towns for the first time in 10 years.