The Miami Heat beating the Portland Trail Blazers by sixty is crazy. The largest win in franchise history. A lot of the damage was done by their bench too. I guess you can say the Damian Lillard trade hasn’t quite paid off for the Trail Blazers, who have struggled pretty bad this year. Even Ayton who had been playing well didn’t do much tonight.

Miami Heat is still has plenty of powers, they still have Butler and the experience under their belt, and they could be one of the dark horse again this playoff. It will not be instant for Portland though, they really have to rebuild after trading Dame Lillard and it's obviously struggled this season.

In playoff it's series so whether who Miami faces in their game, they should be prepared as Miami is not a easy team to beat. They will be hard pressed to be swept even if they faces top seed in the East, that's for sure.

And firing their former coach and getting Doc Rivers might bite them in the ass if they are going to lose against the Heat again. As we have said, they are doing good before getting coach Rivers.

They also have a history of firing their coach, even Mike Budenholzer who help them win a championship was not spared. So it's not the players that is the problem. But the management itself who keeps on changing their coaches if they see that they are under performing. At least gave them a good chance before replacing them.

I honestly think Giannis is gone either way.  His pairing with Dame hasn't turned into the great friendship and duo that everyone thought.  Dame doesn't seem happy and he's already talking about going back to Portland.  I think everyone believes this is a last chance situation for the Bucks.  If they don't win a championship I think both Dame and Giannis find new homes for next year.  I really like the idea of Giannis going to the Golden State Warriors and helping Steph win another championship.  The most entertaining outcome to me would be Giannis and LeBron both going to the Warriors and winning another 2 championships to end LeBron's career.

Yeah I don't know what the moneyline was on the Hawks but it had to be a huge payout.  I think the line was -15.5 for Boston. Boston always seems to throw up some stinkers every now and again.  In my eyes it's Boston and Denver and then everyone else.  Boston in a 7 game series is going to be incredibly hard to beat.

The Dallas Mavericks are really impressive in their recent games.

Last season, many speculated that Kyrie Irving was not fit for the Dallas Mavericks but that all changed this season.

It's also noticeable that Kyrie Irving has many dunks established this season which is unusual to him. I want to see the team reaching the Finals.

Looks like they are not given a chance to take their spot because is a sure playoff game for them and they don't need to play in the play-in tournament at this point if they can preserve their spot. I think this is one of the best seasons for the Mavs and they made the right decision not trading Kyrie to the other team rather they made some good adjustments in order to synch him play with Luka and their Duo is in another level obviously compared to last season, me too, they are one of the teams that I really wanted to see in the final as well, not because of the team but because of their current rosters.

Rivals Boston and Milwaukee are back in the winning column. Too bad for the Pelicans because I like them in the 4th position rather than the Clippers who already has the veterans and a trio of superstars.

Less than 10 games already for most of the teams. It's the first time I appreciate this new play-in system. It makes the games better since some of the bottom teams are still playing hard for a chance to enter the playoffs. Without the play-ins, many teams would've rested their main players with minor injuries to heal and give way to the other players.

You are right, the Kyrie we have known since then is more on solo play.

But here at the Dallas Mavericks, many have doubted that Kyrie isn't fit with Luka since they are both ISO players. I'm one of those doubters and want Kyrie to be traded instead as I think he will just destroy the chemistry of the Mavericks. But that was all changed and I think Luka gives way as a playmaker for Kyrie. Since teams knew that Kyrie always acted solo on most plays, he was sometimes doubled or tripled on defense, and that made other scorers of the Mavericks always free at the perimeter.


There is a personal issue between Lebron James and Kyrie Irving that's why the latter asked for a trade. But before that, their Cleveland Cavaliers championship year is great proof that if LBJ and Kyrie work together as a team, they are a threat.

He also had personal issues with the Brooklyn Nets (a crybaby lol) before that's why he didn't work well with Kevin Durant back then. Then later on, Durant also had an issue with the management there and the rest is history.