2010 NBA Playoff Picks

A look back at my playoff picks before the season started:

Eastern Conference Teams to Make the Playoffs (from 1st to 8th):
Celtics, Cavs, Magic, Hawks, Wizards, Bulls, Heat, Raptors

Western Conference Teams to Make the Playoffs (from 1st to 8th):
Lakers, Spurs, Blazers, Mavs, Nuggets, Jazz, Hornets, Rockets

If you look at that, I did pretty well!
In the East, I messed up on the Wizards (which a lot of other people did as well) and the Raptors (but they finished 9th, so it was close!), and should have replaced them with the Bucks and Bobcats. I also mentioned the Celtics would win the East because of their strong bench, but I guess that was totally off. They're old, bench sucks, and don't have much left, but I still think they're formidable.
In the West, I was pretty good with the picks except for the Hornets and Rockets. I should have had the Suns (really wrong on this one) and the Thunder (who would've thought that?!?!).
The seeding for both conferences were a bit off too, but for the most part, I was correct! =)


Now here are my picks for the playoffs:

East:
Cavs over Bulls in 5
Magic over Bobcats in 5
Hawks over Bucks in 4
Celtics over Heat in 6 (A lot of people are picking the Heat, but I don't trust anybody on their roster besides Wade)
[A lot of quick series!!!]

Cavs over Celtics in 5
Hawks over Magic in 6 (You heard it here first!)

Cavs over Hawks in 6


West:
Lakers over Thunder in 6 (This will be a really good series)
Mavs over Spurs in 5
Suns over Blazers in 5 (GO SUNS GO!!! GO STEVE NASH GO!!!)
Nuggets over Jazz in 7 (Both teams are so good and deserve to be in 2nd round! Boozer's injured, so I have to go with Chauncey and Melo)
[WAIT!!! Boozer is actually going to play. He's going to have a huge impact in this series, so I'm now going to say...
JAZZ OVER NUGGETS IN 6!!!]

Lakers over Nuggets/Jazz in 6
Mavs over Suns in 7 (Another really good series)

Lakers over Mavs in 7 (Another really good series!!!)


NBA Finals:
Lakers over Cavs in 7 (This was the series everybody wanted to see last year, and they get it this year! I still like Kobe and the Lakers even though everybody's picking the King to get his Ring. I see Kobe winning Game 7 in Cleveland with a near last-second shot.)