We’re finally here, y’all. After so many months of waiting and watching pure chaos ensue throughout the league’s standings, the playoffs are finally upon us.
We rarely see upsets in the NBA, but nothing is guaranteed this postseason. Things could get wild and it could happen fast.
We’ve got the NBA’s brightest stars from the last decade facing off against the biggest stars of the league’s present pretty early on. The Western Conference is an absolute mess — the bottom looks like it could be just as threatening as the top. And, to top it all off, the 3 best teams in the NBA are all in the Eastern Conference this year.
With all that being said, before things get started, we wanted to take a quick lay of the land. So here’s a power ranking of the teams left as we enter into the first round of the playoffs.