A simple correction, Spurs and Warriors are on the western side. Though, I must disagree, Curry plays a big factor for the warriors and most of there plays are revolving to Steph. Warriors really has deep lineup but missing their key player is a big big hurt for them, especially, that Rockets is still on there way. Don't be so complacement, Spurs is still a contender. It might go the other way, who knows.

Curry is out but not out for the entire playoffs, I am sure he will be back soon.
While on the other team, Kawhi is not gonna play in the playoffs but the Spurs are improving now, I think it's really a good match up, it might go in 7 games.

Always as possible, but that will just remained as "possible" as honestly Im not even sure who be on the finals. I will disregard their season records here because it doesn't matter. What matters for me is their head to head series this last season on which somehow a good reference (only applicable for matchup that both teams have a healthy lineup).

As for Spurs vs Warriors match, I see this will be a closed game. As per reports, Stephen Curry is not expected to play even a minute in the first round. Well they are still a deadly team but Warriors with Curry is more like a usual "system" rotating in their team and that is backed up even by their main man Kevin Durant. What I noticed is, everytime Kevin Durant turned into scoring machine, his teammates are not doing the same thing and you all can see that in their stats. Hope that will not be like that once playoffs came.

Let's see how will they handle San Antonio Spurs that really fought hard to get a playoffs spot. Most people really eyeing for Warriors at this match. As posted above, good thing Spurs are likely can play well without Leonard this time. His absence for long time make Spurs getting used to it.

NBA matches are unpredictable so we can't really so for a gambler, we can't really say on what team "should" we placed our bet.

Are going to just rely on luck? Although there is no assurance that we can always have a good result from doing analyzation, it's still a wise thing to do. Nah we can't just bet and bet and bet and face the risks in the first place.

Some ESPN analyst gave their forecast on the 1st round of the playoffs. I recommend reading it. Like I said, no assurance but still a good reference.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23091316/espn-forecast-nba-playoff-predictions-win-sweep-round-1

Nitrogensports.eu have a betting option for that.

On the dropdown menu (Sportsbook), just head on NBA SERIES then all matches for the first round of playoffs are there. Not sure if they will opened up a NBA Champion betting like Directbet always did even at a start of NBA season. I miss Directbet because of that betting option lol. It gaves me a decent profit last 2016 NBA Finals + the series match.

As with any sport during the playoffs each team and their players play with different kind of tactics and their coaches use different attack plans during these games as well.
They take out key players at certain points so to conserve them for the more important games at the end of the series runs.
That sometimes work if they do eventually make it that far in their respective series.

We will find out tomorrow, the Spur are very underrated at this game, they are getting better while the warriors is not winning
entering the playoffs, I need to be on the other side here, I will take the Spurs in game 1 as a revenge.

ave noticed the play-offs have started and it is no surprise with Golden State Warriors dominating game one just so to set the tone and reminder the Spurs who last year's champions were.
And if they don't have Kawhi Leonard consider it to be a sweep as that was a Blow Out.
Just watching the Raptops game and it is just back and forth as John Wall is keeping the Wizards in this game, with those plays in the second quarter stealing and passing it like only Wall knows how it is done in the post. 

I wouldn't be over confident though. I would like to see San Antonio at least extends the game and really test how good Golden State without Curry because this is play-off time. This is really good though for Golden State if they are tested, at least we are going to see their true colors and be ready for tough next round opponent.

As for San Antonio, without Leonard it will be really difficult to overcome and win this series against Golden State, but winning at least 1 game is not bad. But I wouldn't be surprised though is Golden State sweep the series.