{"id":708446,"date":"2026-04-11T21:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/708446\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T21:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:03:43","slug":"nba-fans-dont-trust-lakers-or-knicks-in-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/708446\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Fans Don\u2019t Trust Lakers or Knicks in Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 2026 NBA Playoffs are just around the corner. Theoretically 16 teams will battle for the championship trophy awarded in June. Practically speaking, only a few of those have a legitimate shot at winning it all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This week SBNation\u2019s Reacts Surveys polled fans nationally, asking which teams in the top four of each conference were least likely to take the crown. The results were interesting, putting a couple of big-market teams in the hot seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the Eastern Conference, fans voted the New York Knicks least likely to succeed in the first round of the playoffs. The Knicks got 44% of the vote with the Cleveland Cavaliers coming in a close second at 42%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the West, the Los Angeles Lakers got the dubious distinction of first-round failure, receiving a whopping 88% of the vote. This may be due, in part, to current injuries to stars Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves, but it may also have something to do with the rock-solid competition in the Western Conference compared to the East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Would you echo these sentiments or is your vote different than the popular consensus?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 NBA Playoffs are just around the corner. Theoretically 16 teams will battle for the championship trophy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,304,6,3101,1136,191,3810,3806],"class_list":{"0":"post-708446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-knicks","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-knicks","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkknicks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116388102419689143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}