we already have three Playoffs posters in the West, Rudy Gobert will eat Jokic from Monday, or maybe the opposite

The landscape had started to take shape a few days ago but it is now official: three of the four posters of Playoffs in the West are known. Clippers-Mavericks, Nuggets-Jazz and Thunder-Rockets (or Rockets-Thunder). You just have to preheat, it starts Monday!

The matches of the night delivered their verdict and if the intensity was sometimes equal to that of a fight between two aging snails, the results at least have the merit of having formalized what will be your daily life in the next fifteen days. Come on, let’s recap quickly, before looking very quickly in depth on these four series.

Update on the Eastern Conference

Los Angeles Clippers – Dallas Mavericks

The series of decadence, the one that will crown the team that scores more than 140 points in each game. The Clippers are obviously the huge favorites of this match-up but the mere presence of Luka Doncic and a Kristaps Porzingis faya since the resumption promises us a kind of All-Star Game in each match. Unless perhaps the Clippers do from the outset in Playoffs mode, but we can easily imagine that this series will still be reserved for fans of offensive cards. First Playoffs of Luka Magic, the Clippers who begin their mission to the ring: unmissable.

Denver Nuggets – Utah Jazz

Here is an interesting series. On the one hand, a Jazz which has been gaining momentum for a few years but which struggles to confirm in the Playoffs, the fault in particular of these damn Rockets who block their way almost every year. The other of the Nuggets in new NBA darling mode and in the obligation to pass the Utah stage to be taken seriously. Nikola Jokic vs Rudy Gobert, Jamal Murray vs Donovan Mitchell, two contenders for a single place in the half, let’s go. Denver advantage, but beware of the Jazz if the playoffs mode takes.

Oklahoma City Thunder – Houston Rockets

An open series, perhaps the most open of all. News about Russell Westbrook’s state of health will be watched closely, but in any case this series has it all. The Thunder have nothing to lose after going from a potential 15th in the conf at the start of the season to the biggest surprise in the League nine months later, and we can easily imagine that Chris Paul will take a few tricks out of his bag to piss off his former teammates. We are waiting for a James Harden all-time, we are waiting for a liberated OKC youth, all the lights are green for an absolutely magnificent series.

Three series, a fourth which will pit the Lakers against the Blazers, the Grizzlies, the Suns or the Spurs, and a great show which will begin in any case on Monday evening in prime time. And to think that we’re going to have to miss Joséphine, guardian angel, what a shitty life.

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