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What game operations in game 1 have the NBA title chances of Thunder, Celtics and Cavs impressed

The head coach of Thunder, Mark Daignault, scratched his head after he lost the game 1 of round 2 against Denver Nuggets on May 5, 2025. (Sam Hodde/Getty Images)

Do you ever feel that you have the Jinxing forces of the entire cosmos – or am that just me?

Yes, only days after I wrote that …

These NBA playoffs still belong to Thunder, Celtics and Cavs

These NBA playoffs still belong to Thunder, Celtics and Cavs

In general, the first round of the NBA playoffs from 2025 was quite entertaining. The Knicks-Pistons and Warriors-Rockets series had their share of controversy and dust-ups; The nuggets and clipper went back and forth with Jokić and Kawhi; Also the

… all three difficult favorites to win the NBA title 2025 lost the opening games of their series. On Sunday, the Cavs dug an early tour against the Pacers at home, which they only briefly climbed before they were neglected in the end. And on Monday both the defending champion Celtics and the Rising Power Thunder had the probabilities of the second half of more than 95 percent, only to blow both games.

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And that's how I called the “holy trinity” by NBA teams from 2025, The Thunder, Celtics and Cavaliers, now in round 2 of the playoffs together 0: 3.

What did that do with your general chances of winning? Here is a before and after our table from the post on Friday:

Certainly it has brought its chances of a kind of dent. After summarizing a few days ago for an almost 90 percent chance of winning the championship, the number is now to … 80 percent. The thunder seemed to score the biggest goal, but that could be because the model and the quota brokers are more challengers of the West as the challengers offered from the east. (Despite the losses, Boston and Cleveland hardly moved in their composite number.)

But while the trio of losses actually seemed to give something strange cosmic, and especially the twin on Monday evening – as if the basketball gods said that an apparently predictable season would not lose their potential chaos without fighting – these were only three games in the larger picture. Boston and OKC are still heavy favorites to win their series, and while the statistics version of my model Indy is a very low allusion via Cleveland, the betting market for Cleveland is a very low allusion Still firmly supported the cavs.

In other words, the Holy Trinity is probably still being created at the end … but at least a few days they certainly have a faith that once seemed unshakable.

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