Eastern Conference Odds: Celtics, Cavaliers on Collision Course?

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00:00Right now, we already know the Eastern Conference Finals matchup based on the odds.

00:04It will be the Celtics and the Cavaliers.

00:06Cleveland will have home for advantage,

00:08but still probably not be that favorite to win the Eastern Conference Finals

00:12and reach the NBA championship set.

00:14Is there any other team, any other team around the Eastern Conference

00:19outside of the New York Knicks that you think could even threaten

00:23a spot in the Eastern Conference Finals?

00:25I mean, the only team you can maybe think about is Indiana

00:30because they've won six in a row and eight out of their last ten

00:34and playing their best basketball of the season.

00:36But the concerning thing about Indiana is they get stops, right?

00:41Now, if you look at last year, they made it to the Eastern Conference Finals.

00:44Tyrese Halliburton doesn't make it past Game 2.

00:46They get swept by Boston.

00:47So now there's the thing of, well, if Halliburton's there,

00:50remember, Game 1 was a really tight contest.

00:53I do believe it was an overtime when I do believe my boss had a close win.

00:56So to me, that is where you look at maybe Indiana.

00:59Milwaukee, absolutely not.

01:01Detroit, a year away.

01:03Magic, love the story early in the year.

01:05They have just self-destructed down the stretch.

01:07And then you look at those teams in a play and it becomes interesting

01:10because I think out of all those teams, I think Miami's going to end up eighth

01:14because they've done it before.

01:16Now, they've done it losing the 7-8 game and then winning the second game.

01:20But that's a team that in a one-game or two-game situation,

01:23I needed to win one or two, I trusted more than Chicago to win two in a row.

01:27And I trusted more than either Orlando or Atlanta in that loser of the 7-8 game

01:33because I think that team has a propensity to rise to the occasion

01:38and be that A team, which that makes them a little bit dangerous versus Cleveland

01:42because they did do it to Milwaukee a couple of years before.