SB Reacts: Odds to advance in the NBA Playoffs

If you haven’t signed up for the weekly SB Nation Reacts polls, look for one of our team posts and you can sign up and participate. This week’s national look at things had to do with the playoffs, which are right around the corner. FanDuel’s odds are right here and it’s a good place to see where the smart money is on particular series. Right now, the odds have the Thunder at +170 to win it all and the Celtics at +185. Cleveland is a fun bet at +500.

The first question put up the Boston Celtics against the rest of the Eastern conference field.

Clearly, most fans think the Celtics are amazing, and they’d be right. But a 55% majority is interesting in the voting. I’d give the Cavaliers a pretty good shot against Boston, but what do I know.

The next poll is about the Western Conference, pitting OKC against the field.

This one’s a little more what I would expect. The Thunder are regular-season dominant, but that doesn’t mean an overwhelming force come playoff time. Maybe they will, we’ll see!

The third question centers around the Eastern Conference Play-In teams, at least those at the time of the poll (pretty sure the East didn’t change much the last month or so).

The Orlando Magic win a solid minority of voters about who could make a run from the Play-In field. The Bulls getting last is weird with how well they’ve played, but I bet people don’t realize that.

Then it’s the same question for the Western Conference field of teams.

The voting here is all over the place with the Warriors winning the poll but as of this moment, they are sixth, not seventh. It’s pretty funny the Mavericks only get 2% but then again with how weird they are, getting any votes is surprising.

Who do you think will come out of each conference? Who will come out of the NBA Play-In? Sound off in the comments!

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