{"id":39214,"date":"2025-04-19T07:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/nba-playoffs-2025-predictions-the-winner-key-players-and-dark-horses\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T07:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:56:14","slug":"nba-playoffs-2025-predictions-the-winner-key-players-and-dark-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/nba-playoffs-2025-predictions-the-winner-key-players-and-dark-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA playoffs 2025 predictions: the winner, key players and dark horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our writers made their predictions with the NBA postseason tipping off in proper on Saturday afternoon<\/p>\n<p><strong>Absolutely not<\/strong>. Could it stand to be a little shorter? Sure. Do the referees need to be more judicious with when they intervene? I\u2019d argue they do. But the <em>real<\/em> problem the NBA faces is, in my opinion, a PR one. Its loudest voices should spend less time pearl-clutching and more time celebrating. <strong>Claire de Lune<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/19\/nba-playoffs-2025-predictions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our writers made their predictions with the NBA postseason tipping off in proper on Saturday afternoon Absolutely not. Could it stand to be a little shorter? Sure. Do the referees need to be more judicious with when they intervene? I\u2019d argue they do. But the real problem the NBA faces is, in my opinion, a &#8230; <a title=\"NBA playoffs 2025 predictions: the winner, key players and dark horses\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/nba-playoffs-2025-predictions-the-winner-key-players-and-dark-horses\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NBA playoffs 2025 predictions: the winner, key players and dark horses\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}