NBA PLAYOFFS: Game 1 - (7) Los Angeles Lakers @ (2) Phoenix Suns l Sunday l 12:30pm l ABC l Series (0-0)

[SunsRback4Good]

Who: Los Angeles Lakers @ Phoenix Suns

When: Sunday, May 23rd @ 12:30pm (3:30ET) l ABC

Where: Phoenix Arena, Phoenix, AZ












Los Angeles Lakers starting lineup:


C- Drummond

F- Davis

F- Lebron

G- Caldwell-Pope

G- Schroder



Reserves: Caruso/Kuzma/Matthews/Morris/Harrell






Phoenix Suns starting lineup:


C- Ayton

F- Crowder

F- Bridges

G- Booker

G- CP3



Reserves: Saric/Payne/Cam/Kaminsky/Carter





Good luck charm!!!!

[Barkley6]

Hey now, if Utah loses it could be San Antonio or Memphis too!

[SunsRback4Good]

Hey now, if Utah loses it could be San Antonio or Memphis too!

You do have a point my friend.

[Azsports77]

Laker Trolls are already making stupid threads on the general board about Suns watch I bet we won’t even end up playing the fakers in the first round lol.

[SunsRback4Good]

Laker Trolls are already making stupid threads on the general board about Suns watch I bet we won’t even end up playing the fakers in the first round lol.

Haha! Cant wait until they lose early in first or second round shocking the entire Laker nation.

[Keith_myath]

Good luck charm?

[Mulhollanddrive]

I'm tipping Phoenix (2) vs Golden State (7)

Suns in 6.

[King4Day]

Looks like Utah is taking their game serious. Got their starters playing.
Denver does too but not sure how serious they're taking it.

[King4Day]

Denver down 43-22 after 1
Kings were up about 10 on Utah and just gave it all back, and some

[Azsports77]

I changed this post because it was wrong Dallas can fall no farther than 6 th place

[starbosa10]

Dallas is losing to Minnesota lol if both Portland and Lakers win the Suns will most likely face Warriors or Mavs but right now Warriors look more probable lol.

If Portland, Dallas, and LA finish on the same record Dallas is 5 as they won the division. Dallas can't fall to the play in

[Azsports77]

Yeah sucks but bring on warriors or Fakers and Lebitch lol.

[Mulhollanddrive]

2-0 at home is non negotiable for us if we get the Lakers.

[Calvin Klein]

time to change the title to Lakers/Warriors.

Either way it's gonna be a streesful week

[Mulhollanddrive]

OKC, Clippers tied at 102.

Who's tank is it anyway?

[bwgood77]

OKC, Clippers tied at 102.

Who's tank is it anyway?

It's probably pretty big for both. OKC might be in a coin flip for 3rd-4th worst record or 5th-6th. Odds to get top 4 pick from 3 to 6 drop from over 52% to just over 37% and to get #1 pick from 14% to 9%.

http://www.tankathon.com/

Clips I'm sure would rather get the 4 seed and play Dallas and then probably Utah then Portland and potentially the Lakers.

Though maybe the Mavs fall to 6th...Portland holds the tiebreaker...and Mavs losing badly with Portland winning easily. Someone said the lowest the Mavs could drop is 5 I think but that's probably wrong, at least according to this article (though this also says Lakers are projected #6 and it was posted an hour ago).

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/nba-playoff-picture-standings-magic-numbers-lakers-projected-for-no-6-in-west-nets-clinch-no-2-seed/

If Dallas drops to 6th, it does seem the Clips would prefer them to Portland..and should win if that's the case, unless they are just looking ahead and fearing the Lakers.

[bwgood77]

Of course in a game surely Presti wanted to lose, Poku, who has not ever played particularly well outside of small stretches and interesting plays in games, has 29 on 10/19 shooting and 6/9 from 3, with 8 boards and 2 assists. Lots of turnovers but his shooting secured the victory.

[Mulhollanddrive]

Schrodinger's Playoffs -

1st round - Lakers or Golden State
2nd round - Denver or Dallas
3rd round - Utah, Clippers, Portland, Lakers, Golden State, Memphis or Spurs

[collidingNeurons]

Denver gets Portland, clippers and Dallas, Dallas got 5th due to division rule, which is stupid but doesn't really affect suns

[SunsRback4Good]

Schrodinger's Playoffs -

1st round - Lakers or Golden State
2nd round - Denver or Dallas
3rd round - Utah, Clippers, Portland, Lakers, Golden State, Memphis or Spurs