Looking back at the beginning of the season, Tencent predicted the championship, how many people are left now? Everyone supports the Nets

The 2024-2025 NBA playoffs have reached the last game of the second round, and there are only 5 teams left that hope to win the championship, namely the Pacers in the East and the Timberwolves in the West, the Thunder and the Nuggets in the West.

Although the title of the champion has not been determined, many predictions have completely lost hope of hitting it. Before the start of the season, Tencent had 37 guests predicted the championship of the new season, of which:

14 chose the Celtics, and they were all optimistic about the Celtics defending their title.

In terms of lineup, the Celtics have indeed retained the championship lineup, and have richer experience and no super strong teams appear, so they do have many conditions to defend the title.

But this is how the game is. You can't win if you have a strong lineup. In the second round, the Celtics led by 20 points at home for two consecutive home games and were reversed by the Knicks. In the end, Tatum fought a ruptured Achilles tendon, and Jaylen Brown was also injured. The Celtics lost to the Knicks 2-4 and stopped in the second round.

The predictions of these 14 people have failed!

Of course, they failed relatively late, and there are even more exaggerated ones.

Zhu Fangyu predicts that the Nets will win the championship.

This should be the most outrageous, and there is no reason for the Nets to win the championship. Probably, it is predicting that the Nets boss is rich and will continue to trade the giants in the middle of the season, but unfortunately, it has not appeared. The Nets have nothing to do with the championship all season and can't even enter the playoffs.

2 people predict that the Suns will win the championship.

This is very confident in Durant, but unfortunately, the Suns can't even enter the playoffs. Among the predicted teams, the Suns and the Nets are the only two teams that cannot even enter the playoffs.

3 people predict that the Mavericks will win the championship.

From the beginning of the season, there is indeed some truth. After all, the Mavericks were the runner-up last season. It is very likely that they will be ashamed of this season and will be braver.

However, the Mavericks' record was not ideal due to injury at the beginning of the season. More importantly, they actually sent Doncic away during the season, so they completely missed the championship. In the end, the Mavericks were eliminated in the play-offs. In addition to the Nets and the Suns, the Mavericks were the third predictor team to miss the championship.

1 predicts that the Lakers will win the championship.

This will definitely remain unchanged for thousands of years. As long as James is still in the Lakers, this person will definitely predict that the Lakers will win the championship, which has nothing to do with the lineup.

Of course, although Doncic got the trade in the middle of the season and got the third place in the regular season, he was still out of the first round with a 6-year-old. This is the fourth team to predict the outgoing, and the rest of the teams have entered the second round at least.

1 predicted the Clippers, which was the fifth out, losing to the Nuggets 3-4 in the first round.

And the second round was a large-scale elimination.

In addition to the aforementioned 14 Celtics were eliminated, three people predicted that the Warriors won the championship were also eliminated. When Curry was injured and was confirmed to miss 4-6 games, the Warriors were eliminated.

There are 12 people left, with a retention rate of about 33%, which is still very good. If you don’t consider the team’s lineup and strength issues, there are 5 left for 30 teams, with a retention rate of 1/6. The prediction of Tencent’s guests still retains 33%, which is quite high. Overall, it is much more accurate than their predictions before the start of the playoffs.

5 people support the Thunder and 4 people support the Nuggets.

After the game ends in the early morning tomorrow, there will be either 5 people left or 4 people left.

2 people support the Knicks and 1 person supports the Timberwolves.

From this point of view, these three people still have their own ideas. They completed the transaction in the offseason, and Towns replaced Randall. A deal that was not favored was at least a win-win situation now.

And the Pacers who have entered the Eastern Conference Finals have no support. Among the remaining five teams, the Pacers are the only ones that no one supports.