Inside the NBA Conference Finals: Which Surprising Team Could Defy All Odds and Clash for the Championship?
The Cavaliers and their seventh-ranked offense, per our TRACR metric, come into the conference finals accustomed to facing strong defenses – the Knicks rank fourth in defensive TRACR, but the Raptors are fifth and the Pistons third. (Here’s our NBA Predictions page.)

The Knicks, under first-year head coach Mike Brown, won two of the three regular-season matchups with Cleveland before the new year. James Harden, Dennis Schroder and Keon Ellis were not yet on the Cavs roster, but they were following the NBA trade deadline, and coach Kenny Atkinson’ squad won the third meeting by 15 points.



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