NBA Playoffs Bold Predictions
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What are the final standings and playoff matchups for the NBA playoffs?
Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for April 13th, 2026. I'm Dave Dufour here with Zena Keita and Espera Henne coming up. The regular season is over. The playoffs are set and we're going to talk some play in action in addition to our bold predictions. Good morning, everybody. What is up, guys? Congratulations to you. Made it through another regular season. 82 games. Too many. Clearly.
Yeah, it was a long season.
I like the horns. Can we do it? Yeah, you can hit the horns. Come on. Celebratory horns. Zena, your horns were much better. 182 players. We're listed as out on Sunday, guys. What are we doing here? How is that even possible? There's only 450 regular roster spots in the NBA.
I know. I kind of wish we could have this stat for previous seasons. Because I'm like, is that normal?
I think last season was the mid-170s or so. By the way, shout out to the athletic and the entire NBA staff for their support. End of regular season live blog that was going all day long. Every team played. For some reason, all the games started at the same time. They didn't stagger it. I guess maybe the Masters, you know, Rory McIlroy came back and won that.
I mean, with 180 players missing, I'm glad it started all at the same time.
Well, some of the games felt like they were just trying to sim to the end. Honestly, we had some bad losses. The Celtics played nobody. Shout out to Luka Garza, Baylor Shireman, and Ron Harper Jr. They combined for 84 points and 25 rebounds and embarrassed the Orlando Magic, banishing the Magic to the eighth seed and a play-in trip to Philadelphia. Wow.
just by the way it's important to note that the magic were playing their guys so yes that's the key part there the magic were fully healthy they were fully trying in this game down the stretch they had multiple opportunities to win jalen suggs hit a very clutch three-point shot on the other side of the floor luca garza knocked down a clutch three-point shot to tie it back up also Paulo Banqueiro missed travel call on this baseline. Franz Wagner ill-advised three-point shot. The offense collapsing as it usually does for this Orlando Magic team. All of the problems of this season just came down to the last quarter for this Magic group. I've said this for a lot of teams this year. Teams will show you who they are.
Believe them. We need to believe this is the Orlando magic. This is just who they are. And yeah, they do have another game. We'll see what happens with that. But boy, was that just such a devastating way to quote unquote end your season, you know?
hand, though, it was like kind of everything we've been saying about the Celtics this year. You know, Joe Missoula calling timeout, drawing up a play, trying to get a two for one at the end of the game and Luka Garza hits it. Right. I don't know. I don't know what else we could say. Missoula is going to be the coach of the year, whether he wants to be or not. You know, we also had, you know, I want your opinion on this because We went into the regular season finale, and we look on the schedule, and you see Denver, San Antonio. And there's a chance, you know, up until a couple weeks ago, this game might have mattered. Well, the only reason it mattered really was that Jokic played. He's now qualified for postseason awards, played the first half.
But... The Nuggets had a chance if they lost the game to become the four seed and play the Rockets in the first round instead of the Wolves through the six seed and the team that's kind of built to beat them. But the Spurs really, in my opinion, they fumbled. They played their guys except for Wemby. They if they win this game, they have an easier path to the conference finals and they lost it.
Yeah, and you could see the whole argument for MVP for Jokic being made in the fact that when he did not play in the second half, which was predetermined even before the game started, the Spurs started making a run. They closed a pretty significant gap. I think at one point, the largest lead that Denver had was 23 points over the Spurs. They closed it to like
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