There have been 70 total Conference Finals matchups since the NBA adopted a 16-team playoff format for the 1984 postseason. Die Playoffs stehen vor der Tür und die NBA bietet den Fans wieder eine Möglichkeit, tolle Preise zu gewinnen. It doesn't appear in any feeds, and anyone with a direct link to it will see a message like this one. Press J to jump to the feed. This probably isn't much of a surprise, but the 1st Round is home to by far the most. Overall, the average number of Game 7s per postseason is 3.1. You can enter right here for a chance to win a million dollars and a trip to the 2020 All-Star Game in Chicago as part of the Bracket Challenge presented by Tangerine.. They will enter the bracket as the No. The No. CONF. Fill out the perfect bracket - including the winner and total number of games in each series - for your shot at the million dollar Grand Prize. SEMIFINALS. All rights reserved. April beginnen, Am Ende jeder NBA Playoff Serie kannst du deinen NBA Playoff-Baum besuchen und deine Vorhersagen für die anstehenden Spiele aktualisieren, Klettere die Bestenliste hoch, um tolle NBA Preise zu gewinnen. Do you think you have what it takes to fill out the perfect playoff bracket? The NBA season is typically a marathon run of games over several months, but the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has turned the 2019-20 campaign into a sprint toward the finish line. It's been open for awhile, but today is your last day to make a bracket since they become locked tomorrow. The only year under the current playoff format in which neither top seed advanced to the Conference Finals was 1994 when we had a 2-5 matchup in both the East and the West. The record in parenthesis is for the higher seed in those matchups. Of the 50 total Game 7s, half of them have come in the 1st Round with the most common matchup being the 3-seed vs 6-seed (six times) which is slightly more common than either the 2-v-7 matchup (five times) or 4-v-5 matchup (five times). They, of course, weren't your ordinary 6-seed as they were the defending champions, featured the reigning MVP in Hakeem Olajuwon and traded for Clyde Drexler halfway through the season. From 1984 through 2000, 14 of the 17 champions were 1-seeds. In order to help you fill out the perfect bracket, we went through and identified some of the key trends to look out for. Beyond the play-in round, the 2020 NBA playoffs will follow the typical format with full best-of-seven series all the way through the NBA Finals. window.gdprTextData = {"buttonText":"I Agree","cookiePolicyLink":"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/privacy_policy.html#Cookies","cookiePolicyLinkText":"Cookie Policy","privacyLink":"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/privacy_policy.html","privacyLinkText":"Privacy Policy","termsOfUseLink":"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/termsofuse","termsOfUseLinkText":"Terms of Use","text":"NBA sites use cookies and similar technologies. The bracket is set for the 2019 NBA Playoffs which means it's time to make your own bracket predictions. The bracket is set for the 2019 NBA Playoffs which means it's time to make your own bracket predictions. So a word to the wise: if you're looking to go perfect, pick at least three total sweeps with at at minimum one of them occurring in the opening round. 4 … Create or manage deal alerts from the Deal Alert Management page, "For all his pretentions to southern gentility, Pendergast was the most implacable man he had ever met, and a dirty bastard of a fighter." Here's an exhaustive list of the seeding matchups, sorted from most common to least common. The Grand Prize is a one (1) lump sum payment of one million U.S. dollars ($1,000,000USD) (if a Canadian winner $1368441.23CAD) (the ""). Since every series went to a best-of-7, 44 of the 240 overall series (18%) have been sweeps with at least one in every postseason.