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Thunder Secures #1 Seed, Rockets and Lakers Battle
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4/8/2025
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Thunder, about two and a half weeks ago, already clinched that number one overall seed.
00:04
They have a 12 and a half game lead in front of the Houston Rockets.
00:08
I said the Rockets had already clinched the number two seed.
00:12
Technically, a little bit still more at stake.
00:14
The Rockets, a three and a half game lead with only three games remaining.
00:18
If they were to lose their final three and the Lakers were to win their final four in a row,
00:22
it would come down to some tiebreakers.
00:24
We don't expect that to be the case.
00:25
Houston should be the two seed.
00:27
We'll talk about their odds to win the conference crowd in just a moment
00:30
because they keep getting worse seemingly week over week, which is crazy.
00:35
The Lakers, led by LeBron and Luka, a game and a half advantage over the Denver Nuggets.
00:40
The three seed, Denver in a tailspin.
00:42
The last week, they have dropped four straight, four straight games, the RS were.
00:46
In two of them, Nikola Jokic has recorded the first ever 60-point triple-double in NBA history
00:52
and most recently, a 41-point triple-double in the Nuggets' recent loss on Sunday
00:57
against the Indiana Pacers.
00:59
And then the story that you see there, five through eight, the Clippers, Warriors, T-Wolves,
01:07
Grizzlies, all with the same exact record, but just four games left, 46-32.
01:12
Yeah, you got to perform at this point in the year.
01:14
And also, the troubling point about the Nuggets is I don't think people are worried about
01:17
once they get to the playoffs.
01:18
Like, they have a championship, like Nikola Jokic is playing great basketball, but that's
01:22
the issue.
01:23
You can't have a 60-point triple-double and 40-point triple-doubles and losing those basketball
01:26
games.
01:27
It's one thing to say that they're on a slide because they're trying to manage an elbow
01:30
injury, let's just say, for Nikola Jokic, or, hey, he's just not right right now.
01:34
His cardio's a little bit off.
01:35
His triple-doubles are 15, 12, and 10.
01:38
Like, epic performances like that.
01:39
Somebody else needs to step up for that basketball team, and they have the players to do it, but
01:43
they're just not performing.
01:44
And also, the alarming rate of, let's just say they don't play great basketball.
01:48
They go from the 4th seed to the 8th seed at that point, or something like that, which
01:51
is crazy.
01:51
It sounds crazy, but one or two losses where you might finish 500 the rest of the way,
01:56
and the other two teams are going 3-1 or 4-1 or 5-1 down the stretch, however many games
02:00
they got back.
02:01
No choice, but you're out of it here.
02:02
So, playing not your best basketball at the end of the season when you desperately need
02:07
to be in tune with the playoffs to make a championship run, and if your seeding drops,
02:10
that hurts you.
02:11
That's a tough scene there.
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