NBA Playoff Guide: Who plays, when, how you can see, what the chances have

The history of Sunday: round 1 ends and round 2 begins.

Technically speaking, the second round in these NBA playoffs begins before round 1 ends. The first semi -finals of the conference – No. 1 Cleveland against No. 4 Indiana in the east – is played shortly before the game 7 in the west between Golden State and Houston.

Denver, the seed No. 4 in the west, climbed into the second round by winning a game 7 against the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday and winning a matchup with top seed city in Oklahoma. The Nugget-Thunder series begins on Monday, as is the East series between Boston and New York.

Every time east

6 p.m. – Indiana in Cleveland (TNT)

8:30 p.m. – Golden State in Houston (TNT)

Every time east

7 p.m. – New York in Boston (TNT)

9:30 p.m. – Denver in Oklahoma City (TNT)

Always eastern

7 p.m. – Indiana in Cleveland (TNT)

9:30 p.m. – Minnesota in Houston (TNT) or Golden State in Minnesota (TNT)

Oklahoma City (+140) is won over the NBA title, followed by Boston (+195).

After that it is Cleveland (+500), Minnesota (+1600), Golden State (+3000), Denver (+3500), New York (+5000), Houston (+5000) and Indiana (+6600).

On Thursday, Boston's Jrue Holiday was appointed the league for the second time.

Other awards so far:

– Dyson Daniels in Atlanta won most of the improved players.

– The Stephon Castle by San Antonios won rookie of the year.

-Stephen Curry von Golden State won the Twyman-Stokes teammate of the year.

– Draymond Green from Golden State won the Hustle Award.

– Evan Mobley from Cleveland won the defensive player of the year.

– Jalen Brunson of New York won the Clutch player of the year.

– Bostons Payton Pritchard won the sixth man of the year.

– Kenny Atkinson from Cleveland wins the NBCA coach of the year.

The league has not announced a schedule for other awards-in one person-in one way MVP and coach of the year together with all-NBA, all-rookie and all-defensive teams.

The games with the highest score of players in this year's playoffs:

43 – Jamal Murray, Denver against La Clippers, April 29

43 – Anthony Edwards, Minnesota against La Lakers, April 27th

40 – Jalen Brunson, New York in Detroit, May 1st

39 – Kawhi Leonard, La Clippers in Denver, April 21st

38 – Luka Doncic, La Lakers in Minnesota, April 27th

38-Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma City in Memphis, April 26th

38 – LeBron James, La Lakers in Minnesota, April 25th

38 – Jalen Green, Houston against Golden State, April 23rd

Sunday – round 2 of the playoffs begins.

May 12th – Design lottery, Chicago.

May 18th or 20th – game 1, Western Conference Finale.

May 19 or 21 May – game 1, Finale of the Eastern Conference.

June 5 – game 1, NBA final. (Other games: June 8, June 11, June 13, June 16, June 19, and if necessary June 7th and June 7th, June 22nd.)

June 25 – NBA Draft, first round.

June 26 – NBA Draft, second round.

-Preview on game 7 on Sunday: Warriors-Rockets.

-Series preview for Cavaliers-Pacer and series preview capsule.

– Spurs trainer Gregg Popovich steps down.

– Mitch Johnson takes over Pop in San Antonio.

– Appreciation: Gregg Popovich has changed the NBA.

– Grizzlies promote Iisalo to the head coach that removes the interim day.

– Damian Lillard has Achilles tendon surgery.

– Giannis Antetokounmpo has to make a decision. Stay or go?

– A look at the numbers of this season that went into the playoffs

-In these playoffs have been five or more 3-point applicants than their opponents 14-4.

-James Harden of La Clippers played for 47 minutes in game 6 of the Clippers Nugget series, the most that he had ever registered in a not covered game. He scored seven points and band this season his second lowest total.

-No franchise has three cases in which a 3: 1 deficit is overcome in the NBA playoffs. Houston has the chance to be the first on Sunday evening when game 7 organizes Golden State. The Rockets did it in 1995 and 2015. Denver and Boston also held such a comeback. Seven other franchise companies once did it.

– With a game 7 that is still to be played, this will be the fifth year in a row, in which exactly 43 games were required to complete the first round of the NBA playoffs.

– The game of Sunday will be the 12th between the Warriors and Rockets this season. You will be the first teams to meet in a season since the Rockets and San Antonio in a season 1994-95. It is now almost impossible because no team plays more than four times in the regular season – but with the way the NBA Cup plan worked, Houston and Golden State played five times in the regular season.

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