The NBA playoffs from 2025 are in full swing, and our NBA insiders covered them for each game in March for the final.
On Thursday, the No. 3-Samen New York Knicks defeated the No. 6-pistons in game 6 to get into the second round by winning a 3-point dagger by Jalen Brunson, the clutch player of the year.
Next, you will face No. 2 Boston Celtics, who displaced No. 7 Orlando Magic in five games in the first round.
No. 4 Indiana Pacers removed No. 5 Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday and took over against No. 1 D Cleveland Cavaliers, who defeated Miami heat No. 8 on Monday.
If the Ost playoffs continue, what is most important and what can be seen with the second round is.
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Game 6: Knicks 116, Pistons 113
What we learned:
Jalen Brunson and the Knicks-Gal how many double-digit leads they wasted Hatten just enough to put down a annoying piston fighter who did everything to bring the series into a seventh game.
New York pushed into the game and pressed out how important it is not to let his foot out of the pedal and play a full, 48-minute game. The Knicks ran a 14-point advantage in the first half before overtaking the pistons during the break. After coach Tom Thibodeaus Group jumped an 11-point advantage in the third, Detroit also closed this gap before ultimately pulling down the route. The pistons led up to seven, 112-105, with 2:35 games playing.
Detroit only scored the rest of the path one point, and the clutch player of the year, Brunson, who played without Karl-Anthony Towns, who went out of the field and went 3-opposite, broke out for the decisive 3 pointer to finally close the door.
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Jalen Brunsons Clutch 3 in the last seconds wins series for Knicks
In the last seconds, Jalen Brunson has been a huge 3 pointer to drive the Knicks in her series clinching victory against the pistons.
Round 2, game 1: Knicks at Celtics (Monday)
What can be seen:
Can the Knicks, which were swept by the Celtics and were generally not competitive in the regular season against the defending champions, to make a game in Boston? Perhaps most important to see: How does New York, which played more drop-and-roll reporting against the Celtics than any other club, defend Boston's 3-point attack? After completing Detroit on Thursday, you have a decent peace and time for the coaches to prepare yourself in Boston before the start of the series.
– Chris Herring
Game 5: Pacers 119, Bucks 118 (OT)
What we learned:
The Pacers continued their dominance over the money and gathered from a 20-point deficit in game 5 to come back and to win the series clinching competition in an extension in a game-winning Layup from Tyrese Haliburton. Indiana has removed Milwaukee for the second time in a row, and the Pacers are 8: 3 against the goats in the playoffs in the playoffs.
It stops a matchup in the second round between the Pacers and the top seed Cleveland Cavaliers, who have the best offensive in the NBA and have just captured the Miami heat in their first round. If the Pacers can carry out a surprise, they could return to the Eastern Conference final for the second season in a row.
Thanks to a 30-point triple double from Giannis Antetocounmpo and a new starting line-up, the game started with a 13-0 run, not without a fight thanks to a 30-point triple double. Trainer Doc Rivers changed surprisingly and added Bobby Portis, AJ Green and Kevin Porter Jr. in favor of Kyle Kuzma, Brook Lopez and the injured Damian Lillard. But the season ended with heartbreaking fashion when Gary Trent Jr. held two sales in the last 30 seconds after only one in the entire series.
– Jamal Collier
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Haliburton acknowledges that his father was 'caught in the moment' with Giannis
Tyrese Haliburton says he and his father have apologized to Giannis Antetokounmpo after the exchange 5 of the Pacers victory.
Game 5: Celtics 120, Magic 89
What we learned:
Even if the gentleman has the magic of the seventh seeds, they better believe that the defending champion Celtics is happy with this series.
The Magic offers several lengthy, aggressive defenders, and they spent the series guiding the Celtics from the 3-point line and bothering them with a physical, bloody defense that lasted 5 and made the Celtics frustrated frustrated.
But Orlando is (very) challenged (very), and when his star striker Paolo Banchero took three fouls at the beginning of the third quarter, the dynamics shifted in a large way. Banchero went to the bank with 9:46 in the third, and the Celtics exceeded the Magic 30-9, including the closure of the third with a 24: 4 run. Ball game.
Has the magic delivered a blueprint for slowing down the 3-point flood of the Celtics? Or are they just built perfectly? The latter seems more likely because the Celtics have fought against Orlando in recent years, but now the Celtics can rest the winner of the Pistons-Knicks series in the next round.
– Baxter Holmes
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Jayson Tatum ensures that Celtics close the magic
Jayson Tatum 35 points, 8 rebounds and 10 assists lead the Celtics to a series clinching victory over the magic.
Game 4: Cavaliere 138, heat 83
What we learned:
It was 70-25 at the end of the second quarter of game 4-a lead, which represents a lot for the CAVS and the heat when the former continues into the second round of the playoffs after ensuring a four-game sweyep of the latter.
It was such a one -sided score that you will probably ever see in an excretion game. The Cavs started 11 out of 20 from 3-point range, while heat 2 of 23 started. Let's just assume that the intensity levels of the two teams were not excited, with the lethargy of the heat a contrast to which the CAVS set up.
Cleveland broke the heat on game 2 with a strong finish. In the games 3 and 4, when Cleveland Guard Darius Garland was traveling with a bricked -up toe, the Cavs refused to improve De'andre Hunter's season and to give Dean Wade for additional minutes, two strikers who shared the available season. The result was great standards that made Tyler Herro, which were effectively walled and hard for the heat, and mostly had a miserable series.
Playing the big lineups is a lesson for the CAVS if you later got into a cucumber against stronger teams in the post -season. Back to them could prove to be a valuable curve ball, since one of the few weaknesses of Cleveland is a lack of size on the back court. Otherwise not much learned this evening.
– Brian Windhorst
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Stephen A.: It's time for Pat Riley to continue
Stephen A. Smith says it is time for a change in Miami and asks whether Pat Riley is still the right person to lead the Heat front office.
