What's funny about the Hawks on that game is that, there is a time in the final minutes of the game where Young is inbounding the ball. He can't somebody to pass the ball with so what he's doing is that he just throw it on Smart's foot (he is defending him), and put it out of bounds. I think he did it thrice in a short amount of time. In the end, their possession ended up as a turnover. Kind of funny, but good strategy by Young to reset the 5 second count, and not waste a time out.

Hawks are now eliminated. Now the Philly and the Celtics will battle in the second round. TBH, I'm rooting on the Sixers to win on this one. I mean who in the Celtics can stop Embiid? Add also Harden's passing ability, Maxey's ability to shoot, and their other role players. Injuries aside, I will go with the Sixers with this one, but if Embiid will be injured during the series (I hope it will not happen), I'll go with the Celtics in 7 games.

I will only say this to the Kings-Warriors series.

Only one road win is needed for them to win in this series, and now that they've got it, for sure that the Warriors will finish this series in Chase Center. Also the Warriors  have 28 straight series with a road win. That currently is the longest streak in NBA history.

The Warriors can't afford to lose at home, as game 7 would be too risky for their chances to win the series. The way the Kings played in game 5, I didn't see the kind of hunger they showed in the last four games. They seemed to give up in the fourth quarter and let the Warriors take over the game.

In game 6, it's a possible end to the series, so the Kings need to start strong early, as they know how strong the Warriors are in the third quarter. If the Warriors have a good lead in the first half, then the series will be close to ending.

Also, watch out for Klay Thompson, as he is not named "Game 6 Klay" for nothing.

He really was and the reporters didn't exactly expect that answer especially from him because anybody who is a fan of the NBA knows that Giannis is not known to bring offensive words out of his mouth, but it is what it is, let's just understand where he is coming from because they did not really expect to have that outcome after having a very good run in the regular season and even clinched the top spot.

Well, kudos to Hawks for bringing such a tight round for the Celtics, they have extended that one pretty good. I am rooting this will be Celtics win but 76ers was just waiting and has more preparations tbh although Embiid's injury and availability for Game 1 is still questionable so that will be difficult for 76ers.

Well well well , this NBA season is quickly changing towards an epic one. Last night , Celtics finally closed the series against Hawks and they should have done that in game 5 and they are still the strongest team from East because we all saw what happened with Bucks and I can't blame them because they really tried but with some of the players really had consecutive bad days that is kinda unlucky and that is why Giannis told us if we can explain what failure means.

Tonight I do see Kings making a huge game and tie the game 3-3 in this series.

I also see Lakers having a solid game and they should win this one. However,  with Ja on a good night , Grizzlies will win.

A part of that frustration was the fact that he got an injury on their very 1st game in the playoffs versus the Miami Heat because that was one of the reasons why they lost in Game 1. Sure, they got lucky that they win in Game 2 without Giannis on the court in Game 2 but that was their last win because the Heat became hotter afterwards and Jimmy was just unstoppable. Maybe if Giannis wasn't injured, they could've got a better chance against Jimmy and the rest of the Heat.

The Lakers will surely try to take revenge on the Grizzlies. In the last one between these two, the Lakers were not able to actually perform well. But this time I certainly believe that it is going to be different. But at the same time, the Lakeer team will have to play as an actual team. One or two players performing is not going to get it done for them.

I found some interesting article that might be interest some users here especially Filipinos. By the way, this is article is not really connect in the 2023 playoffs that we are currently enjoying now.

This is for the Filipino basketball players who aspires that someday they can play professionally inside the NBA, and of course, for the Filipino NBA fans out there that can't wait to see and watch a full-blooded Filipino basketball player playing inside the NBA.

https://www.espn.ph/basketball/story/_/id/36303143/nba-deputy-commissioner-mark-tatum-only-matter-filipino-plays-nba

This might be it because deputy commissioner Tatum himself is giving away some signs that maybe in the future a pure blooded Filipino is nearing to play in the NBA. Talking about that, Kai Sotto might be the nearest candidate to achieve that history for the Philippine people but I'm not that certain if he will enter his name in the upcoming 2023 Draft because the last update I know about him is that he is joining Japan B. League (JBL).

Only the Kings-Warriors and Lakers-Grizz games left as far as I am aware. That is going to be a tough one, most people think Warriors and Lakers will win, but lets remember that the yare the lower seed in these matchups, even though they "may" look like favorites, we had a whole season that proved that they are not. Lakers made some trades so they might be better, and they made a good player out of Reaves that helps decently as well, but Warriors didn't had any changes, they are the same. I think if one of them fails to win, that wouldn't be such a shock, it might actually happen. I know that it is taking a while but it is definitely a good job if we could see them both win it as well, that will be a great success, both lower seeds beating higher seeds at the same time.