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Brad Botkin

CBS Sports Staff

NBA playoff predictions: Expert picks for full bracket, with Celtics and OKC favored, Warriors, Lakers hopeful

The 2025 NBA playoffs get started this week and our experts are picking who will meet in June

2025 NBA playoff bracket: Postseason picture, matchups, schedule as Clippers clinch spot vs. Warriors

The bracket is set for the 2025 NBA playoffs, and postseason action gets started Tuesday night

NBA regular-season grades for every West team: Warriors get 'A' despite landing in play-in, Suns and Mavs fail

With 82 games in the books, we're handing out Western Conference grades

Jaylen Wells injury update: Grizzlies rookie likely to miss rest of season after hard fall on dunk attempt

Wells had been in the Rookie of the Year conversation

In return to Dallas, Luka Dončić's 45-point bombshell was salt in an ever-deepening Mavericks wound

This, ladies and gentlemen, is how you stunt on the ex that dumped you

NBA MVP Rankings: Why Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is finally a lock over Nikola Jokić, plus LeBron makes top five

Nikola Jokić has had a historic season, but it's SGA's time

Firing a title-winning coach one week before the playoffs? Par for the course in NBA season of crazy decisions

The Nuggets' firing of Malone is the latest head-scratching decision the NBA has seen recently

Russell Westbrook's minutes part of Michael Malone-Calvin Booth rift that led to Nuggets firings, per reports

Booth wanted Malone to play the young guys he drafted, while Malone preferred veterans

Five best NBA races to watch in final week: Playoff seeding, crucial tank off and Draymond's push for DPOY

There is still a lot to be determined over these final six days

Steve Kerr calls Nuggets' Nikola Jokic best center he's ever seen: 'Kareem couldn't do all this stuff'

This is about the highest praise you can give a big man

Pistons clinch playoff spot, continuing one of the greatest turnarounds in NBA history

Detroit is likely going to end up as the fifth or sixth seed in the East

Celtics break NBA record for most made 3-pointers in a single season, and the mark for attempts isn't far off

Payton Pritchard cashed a 25-footer for the historic moment on Friday

Dwight Howard elected to Hall of Fame, per report, will be remembered for Magic glory days and Lakers title

Howard joins Carmelo Anthony, who also got in on his first ballot, in the class of 2025

Warriors' Jimmy Butler is pushing all the right buttons by not actually pushing at all

Steve Kerr said Butler saved Golden State's season, and he's not wrong

Russell Westbrook spoils Nikola Jokić's 61-point masterpiece with two late-game gaffes

Minnesota upended Denver in double overtime in one of the wildest games you'll ever see

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