Minnesota defeated Goden State 121-110 and won the series 4-1 and advanced to the Western Conference finals. Now awaiting their opponent.
In the Eastern Conference, Indiana defeated Cleveland 105-114 on the road and won the series 4-1 in Indiana and advanced to the finals. I don't know if they would have been eliminated so quickly if Golden had Stephen Curry, but Cleveland surprised me.
The team that swept Miami in the first round was eliminated very easily.
The conference finals will be more competitive.

OKC is too young, so their road to finals is a tough one, because they are inexperienced in this. While they are beating Denver, which looks like they definitely will, it will still be tough because it's a very tough road for newbie teams. If OKC goes further, they will meet Wolves, which is also a sort of new team, I mean AD is somewhere and that means we are going to see them not to that great, and we could not see OKC vs Wolves any better, both quite inexperienced aside from a few veterans, so it's going to be fun.

OKC do not have the strong inside like Gobert, sure they have some tall players, but they do not have gobert style strong presence, so inside could help Wolves win, but I am still not sure. We are going to wait and see, Wolves do have Anthony Edwards, but they do not have SGA, and SGA is an MVP level player right now.

People are gonna have doubts about him, that’s just how it is, especially since his brother got caught doing it.

Guilt by association hits hard, even if he’s clean.
It’s unfair, but that’s how public perception works sometimes.

NBA bans Jontay Porter after gambling probe shows he shared information, bet on games

Yeah, That’s how I view it too. It’s hard to remove him out of the picture since he is with his brother that has high potential on colluding with prop bets.

Think about how profit they can get betting on MPJ below 2.5 points a huge amount last game. MPJ score high numbers in average and even his bad day he score above 2 points.

It’s a regular payday for this brother if ever they are truly colluding. 

It was nearby to impossible for not said impossible for the Golden State warriors to go into the conference finals without Stephen Curry.

Its sad because we lost the oportunity to see a much better series between two very good teams, i feel anyways like Wolves can beat Warriors even with Step, because they ahve a much larger team, when you look into the bench.

I hope Curry can still play for 1-2 years.

Celtics can still do it. if they will survive  in NYK homecourt there will be  a big chance to win the series with out Tatum.
But the Eatern Conference Finals will be more difficult with out  Tatum, ( Tatum can miss also next season wiith his injury)

OKC  can end the series tomorrow.

Could be since Curry's game makes a huge impact on both his team and the opponent's. However, The Wolves may still have been too much even if Steph were able to play the whole series. Yes, they could extend it to a couple of games, but I can still see the Wolves winning the series. Both the defense and offense of the Warriors were exposed in the absence of Curry, as the Wolves can easily score which ever they want. While, the Warriors struggles to score, especially in the 2nd half, when the Wolves were tightening their defense.
Kerr was indeed right when he said before that the Warriors' defense are their offensive firepower, but their system always require Steph Curry, without him, they are just another mediocre team. Jimmy can't carry the Warriors alone.

Knicks definitely look like they are doing a great job at the moment but I am not sure if they can continue. Because if we are seeing Celtics look like they are getting a different result here because of Celtics being an injured team at the moment. Knicks won't get that again and we are looking at the situation but that doesn't mean that we are changing and that is why we shouldn't be looking at this as a very difficult thing.

Indiana Pacers that looks like we should be getting a win for them at Pacers and that seems like that is making sense. If we can do that then we should go on and if Knicks ends up winning the series then it means Pacers are going to win the Knicks and that means we are going to get a lot better results for Pacers, that should do better.

Jamal Murray is being deemed as questionable for the game 6 vs OKC Thunder tonight, the Nuggets are already in a tough spot enough, not having Jamal Murray might just be the final nail in the coffin that would see OKC close out the series. I know Jokic is still going to be the biggest threat, but he sure can’t do it alone, and with MPJ also struggling with shots due to his shoulder injury, and Aaron Gordon didn’t do much in game 5 either.

Yes, MPJ is injured is a big factor for the OKC right now. And it's just sad to see that this playoff, there are a lot of great players that are getting injured and those who are healthy like the Knicks and Timberwolves. I'm not taking anything away from them, but the Knicks are still in a better position to eliminate the defending champion.

While the Timberwolves already won their series against the Warriors without their leader in Curry.

So the same predicament with the Thunder against OKC. Murray, their second offensive weapon is down and injured, MPJ and Gordon are struggling and so Jokic can't do it alone, he need someone to help him against the powerful OKC offense.