(1)Boston vs. (8)Chicago Game 1: Sunday, April 16 Chicago at Boston 5:30pm TNT Game 2: Tuesday, April 18 Chicago at Boston 7:00pm TNT Game 3: Friday, April 21 Boston at Chicago 6:00pm ESPN Game 4: Sunday, April 23 Boston at Chicago 5:30pm TNT Game 5* Wednesday, April 26 Chicago at Boston Game 6* Friday, April 28 Boston at Chicago Game 7* Sunday, April 30 Chicago at Boston
Chicago has a good enough team to knock out Celtics. I'm pretty confident it's 50/50 & I would tip Bulls to win this series with cash.
i definitely don't think the celtics are happy it's the bulls. the bulls definitely have the ability to make life miserable for the celtics. but since the bulls usually only show up against lebron or on tnt thursday's, the celtics should ultimately be fine.
Unless there is a freak injury, there is no way the Bulls can win 4 games and take the series. The difference in coaching competency is the biggest of all 8 playoffs series. Hoiberg will be fired the day after the Bulls' season ends. Everyone in the organization knows it.
Chicago can win, but they need Rondo, Wade, Butler to go super saiyan, of which they are all capable. Outside of Rockets/Thunder, this is the series I am most interested in watching. I want the VETS to get NASTY. SHOW ME SOME NASTY!
Ranking every NBA playoff series by upset potential 1. Boston Celtics (1) vs. Chicago Bulls (8) Could a 1-8 matchup actually have the best chance of what would be just the fifth such upset since the NBA playoffs expanded to 16 teams in 1984? The reason my model thinks so starts with the fact that Boston's point differential (plus-2.7 points per game) was the lowest for a No. 1 seed since the 1978-79 Seattle SuperSonics (who went on to win the championship, albeit in a much more balanced league). Only the LA Clippers-Utah Jazz series is closer in terms of point differential. On top of that, the Celtics and Bulls split the season series 2-2. The Celtics also have the least playoff experience (5,461 minutes) of any No. 1 seed since the 2004-05 Phoenix Suns. Dwyane Wade alone (6,380 minutes) has more playoff experience than Boston's entire roster, and Chicago has nearly 7,000 more minutes total. In best-of-seven series since 2000, underdogs with an experience edge between 5,000-10,000 minutes have won about 16 percent more series than my model predicted. Upset probability: 29 percent
many want this as an upset pick...and it wont happen. Boston is a darn good team, and will get beat by a cohesive team...something the Bulls are not...over in 5.
Lame. You always dissapear and become a coward when I try to have an intelligent debate about how dumb the "right but why does it matter what you think?" comment is. You only ever have the courage to drop these immature one liners. You're a coward bro
