{"id":9706,"date":"2025-05-05T04:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T04:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/9706\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T04:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T04:29:14","slug":"nba-playoffs-predictions-who-will-win-eastern-and-western-conference-semifinals-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/9706\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA playoffs predictions: Who will win Eastern and Western conference semifinals series?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Indiana Pacers<\/a>. Boston Celtics vs. New York Knicks<\/a>. Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Denver Nuggets<\/a>. Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> vs. Golden State Warriors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The NBA\u2019s Eastern conference semifinals are set; the Western Conference semifinals fell into place Sunday night when the Warriors beat the Houston Rockets in Game 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The No. 1 seeds (Cavaliers, Thunder) have been impressive; sixth-seeded Minnesota sent the Los Angeles Lakers packing with relative ease; Denver routed the Los Angeles Clippers in Game 7; Boston rolled through Orlando; Indiana beat down beat-up Milwaukee; New York out-executed the Pistons in fourth quarters; Golden State’s experience proved too much for the Rockets.<\/p>\n

CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS PREVIEWS: NYK-BOS<\/a> | IND-CLE<\/a> | DEN-OKC<\/a><\/p>\n

Who will win and advance to the conference finals? USA TODAY Sports experts make their predictions:<\/p>\n

\"Jayson<\/p>\n

Jayson Tatum and the Boston Celtics will continue their NBA championship defense, against the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n

NBA predictions for conference semifinals<\/p>\n

Lorenzo Reyes:\u00a0Cavaliers in 6<\/p>\n

Heather Tucker:\u00a0Cavaliers in 6<\/p>\n

James Williams:\u00a0Cavaliers in 6<\/p>\n

Jeff Zillgitt:\u00a0Cavaliers in 5<\/p>\n

Lorenzo Reyes:\u00a0Celtics in 5<\/p>\n

Heather Tucker:\u00a0Celtics in 5<\/p>\n

James Williams:\u00a0Celtics in 6<\/p>\n

Jeff Zillgitt:\u00a0Celtics in 6<\/p>\n

Lorenzo Reyes:\u00a0Thunder is six<\/p>\n

Heather Tucker:\u00a0Thunder in six<\/p>\n

James Williams:\u00a0Thunder in five<\/p>\n

Jeff Zillgitt:\u00a0Thunder in five<\/p>\n

No. 6 Minnesota Timberwolves vs. No. 7 Golden State Warriors<\/p>\n

Lorenzo Reyes:\u00a0Timberwolves in six<\/p>\n

Heather Tucker:\u00a0Timberwolves in seven<\/p>\n

James Williams:\u00a0Timberwolves in six<\/p>\n

Jeff Zillgitt:\u00a0Timberwolves in seven<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: NBA playoffs picks: Who will win East, West conference semifinals?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Indiana Pacers. Boston Celtics vs. New York Knicks. Oklahoma City Thunder vs. Denver Nuggets. Minnesota…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,75,193,187,2848,164,194,126,4312,135,150,102,152,6,11,191,179,47,297,3582],"class_list":{"0":"post-9706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","11":"tag-denver-nuggets","12":"tag-eastern-conference-semifinals","13":"tag-golden-state-warriors","14":"tag-houston-rockets","15":"tag-indiana-pacers","16":"tag-lorenzo-reyes","17":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","18":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","19":"tag-milwaukee","20":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-nba-playoffs","23":"tag-new-york-knicks","24":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","25":"tag-orlando","26":"tag-pistons","27":"tag-western-conference-semifinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114453345962676697","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9706","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=9706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}