Progsport Basketball Prediction

The Detroit Pistons 60 wins - 22 losses almost finished better this year than the Bad Boys team of I.Thomas whose franchise record acquired during the 1988-89 season still stands 63 - 19. Leaders of the Eastern Conference, Cade Cunningham's partners pulled off quite a surprise, who were expected around 5th place and remain the big favorites from the start of this series against the Orlando Magic. Although Detroit had secured 1st place on Sunday April 5 with the 76ers 93-116, they won their last 3 games with a quality team against the Bucks 137-111, Hornets 100-118 and Pacers 121-133. With this obligatory passage through the Play-in before making the Play-offs, can we consider that the Orlando Magic have had a good 2025-26 season? No. Expectations were very high around the young core Wagner and Banchero into which a boy like D.Bane was grafted last summer. The difficulties facing the Orlando Magic in trying to turn a corner remain the same. Eliminated in 2023-24 in the 1st round by the Cavaliers 4-3, eliminated in 2024-25 by the Celtics 4-1, Orlando must now advance from the first round. As a reminder, after a setback in the play-in match 7th against 8th against the 76ers 109-97, the Florida team saved its skin by winning the bet at home in front of the Charlotte Hornets 121-90 in order to win the precious sesame.

2016 NBA champion, Cleveland returned towards the start of the 2020s with good intentions under the leadership of coach JB Bickerstaff now in Detroit. Fired in 2024, coach Atkinson allowed the year of his induction to finish 1st in the conference but was beaten in the conference semi-finals by the Pacers. Qualified via 4th place 52 wins 30 losses, Cleveland, which remained on 5 wins in its last 6 duels in the NBA, massacred Toronto in match 1 126-113. The Toronto Raptors, 5th in the Eastern Conference at the end of the regular season, in fact lost the first game of this Play-off campaign with still the possibility of recovering home advantage in the event of success this evening in this match 2. The Canadians were crunched in the interior sector without any surprise during match 1 which took place on Saturday at 7:00 p.m., 33 rebounds against 27, and above all 52 points in the paint against 36, while the shooting percentages 54 to 52 and long distance 50 to 48 were similar.