![]() ![]() ![]() The Heat will never be an easy out, not with Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo, and Erik Spoelstra leading the way. Miami looked like a shell of itself in getting pounded by the Hawks in the first play-in game, but they rallied late in their next one to beat the Bulls and set up another playoff series with the Milwaukee Bucks. 1 in the NBA in three-point percentage in ‘21-22, the Heat were No. The biggest culprit might have been a strange dip in three-point shooting: after finishing No. The Heat came within a Jimmy Butler three-pointer of making the NBA Finals last season, but for a variety of reasons a similar roster played mediocre basketball throughout this year. ![]() Our team of writers each ranked teams 1-16, and the final order is the averages of those rankings 16. Here’s how we’d rank the 16 teams in the playoffs by their chances to win the 2023 championship. 1 seed, but almost every team in the West bracket can talk themselves into their path to the NBA Finals. Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets are the No. The Western Conference feels far less likely to go chalk. The Eastern Conference has three heavyweight teams at the top with the Milwaukee Bucks, Boston Celtics, and Philadelphia 76ers all built to win a championship. Instead, the parity we saw throughout the regular season is giving way to a playoff bracket that leaves more teams than ever before believing they have a real shot to win it all. It doesn’t really feel like there’s a team to beat this year. The NBA has historically been a league that runs on superpowers, from Bill Russell’s Celtics to Magic Johnson’s Lakers to Michael Jordan’s Bulls to Tim Duncan’s Spurs to Steph Curry’s Warriors. The bracket for the 2023 NBA Playoffs is finalized, and one of the most wide-open postseasons in league history is here. ![]()
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