NBA Playoffs Are Here

I have ended the NBA season on a 2 day winning streak but my overall picks record for this NBA season: 121 picks - 68 wins and 53 losses for a 56% win ratio. Definitely not the best I have done during the NBA regular season, no excuses, is what it is.

Not sure how many NBA playoff games I will pick, I doubt Ill do every single one of them like I have done in the past but I will try and do a fair amount. I should be able to do all the play-in games to start.

The Pattern I Am Looking For Is: #13

We saw the #3 Chiefs beat the #1 49ers for the Super Bowl earlier this year. We saw the #1 UConn beat the #3 Purdue this month..... who are the #1 and #3 seeds for the NBA playoffs???

If we look at the overall league, ESPN has Celtics at the top and Nuggets in third..... are we looking at a Nuggets repeat Champions just like Chiefs and UConn? And are they going to do it over the Celtics?

If we look at the seeding for the conference it gets trickier, why? In Conference play the Nuggets are the #2 seed for the West and that doesn't go with the NFL and NCAAM 1 vs 3 pattern..... the only thing I can say about them being #2 in the West is maybe the 2 represnts them going back 2 back in Championship wins.... if not, the two teams we have to watch for are the #1 seed Thunder (Which I doubt they will make the Finals but could be wrong), and the #3 seed Timberwolves which I wouldn't be shocked to see them there.

On the East side the #1 seed is Celtics, no shocker there, and the #3 seed is the Bucks, no shocker there, and could be the reason why they decided to tank games in the last week of the regular season, to push for the #3 seed....

So based on this info... Are we going to see

Nuggets vs Celtics for the overall #1 seed vs the overall #3 seed for the League

Or

A combo of Celtics vs Timberwolves and or Thunder vs Bucks....

At this moment, just eyeballin' it, I wouldn't be surprised to see a Celtics vs Bucks Eastern Conference Final, the #1 vs the #3.

On the West though, with Denver as the #2, it has me second guessing a back 2 back for Nuggets and with Thunder at #1, I think they are all show, I don't think Thunder is making Finals, and maybe not even the Wester Conference Finals. So are we going to see the Celtics vs Timberwolves? It would match the 1 vs 3 pattern we saw with NFL and NCAAM but it wouldn't match the back 2 back pattern that has also happened in NFL and NCAAM..

What do you guys think?