Progsport Basketball Prediction

The New York Knicks 2nd in the East, 23 wins - 10 losses missed the boat in their attempt to seize 1st place from the Detroit Pistons at the top of the Eastern Conference standings. An obvious lack of consistency and two worrying defeats for the winner of the last NBA Cup. After an intense setback to Victor Wembanyama's Spurs 134-132, the Spurs fell to the Atlanta Hawks 99-111 last night in a one-sided game. The Philadelphia 76ers fifth with a record of 18 wins - 14 losses are still in the race for the top 4, the best spots for the Play-offs, but seeing this team in the conference semi-finals at the moment seems particularly utopian. Because in fact this year, consistency is not the strong point of the Pennsylvanians, beaten 3 times in a row by the Nets, Bulls and Thunder before returning to the forefront with successes away from home against the Memphis Grizzlies 136-139 and Dallas Mavericks 108-123. 

Although this team has achieved great feats this year in the NBA, Toronto has nonetheless remained a very fragile franchise on its home soil in the NBA for several weeks. The observation is overwhelming, the Toronto Raptors have lost precisely 6 of their last 8 games on Canadian soil. In other words, the balance of the franchise is particularly fragile, like this very difficult defeat to take 48 hours ago in the Scotiabank against the Denver Nuggets deprived of Jokic, Gordon, Braun, Johnson and Valenciunas injured during the match, 103-106. The Atlanta Hawks, on the contrary, failing to demonstrate regularity, excel in the art of being very sporadic in their performances. To be honest, although Atlanta has a back-to-back to negotiate tonight, their victory against the Raptors could turn into a superb added value. Because in fact, the Hawks destroyed two franchises among the main outsiders for the NBA title, namely the Minnesota Timberwolves on January 1, 126-102 and then the New York Knicks in Madison Square last night, 99-111.