Nick Wright’s NBA Playoff + Awards Predictions: Will Lakers SURVIVE Rockets? Celtics-Nuggets Finals?
Nick Wright shares his predictions for the 2026 NBA Playoffs! Will LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers survive Kevin Durant’s Houston Rockets (likely) without Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves? Are Jayson Tatum’s Boston Celtics the team to beat in the Eastern Conference over Jalen Brunson’s New York Knicks and Cade Cunningham’s Detroit Pistons? Later, Nick shares his NBA awards predictions after Luka Doncic and Cade Cunningham were deemed eligible for awards.
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Timeline:
00:00 – NBA Playoff Predictions
01:14 – Western Conference Round 1 Predictions
03:54 – Eastern Conference Round 1 Predictions
06:00 – Conference Semifinals Predictions
07:38 – Conference Finals Predictions
08:20 – NBA Finals Predictions
09:10 – Nick & Damonza’s Playoff Brackets
13:07 – Nick’s All-NBA Teams
21:30 – Nick’s NBA Awards Predictions
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34 Comments
CRAZY that the Don has never won MVP🤷🏿
People are so sure about Nuggets over Spurs lol. We’ll see.
BEANTOWN BOMBERS BABY!✊🏿☘️🏆💪🏿
Knicks winning in 5 lol
Keep sleeping on the Wolves that’s just fine with us
Agree, my Milwaukee native homeboy Jalen Johnson deserves all NBA team. Milwaukee be killing it! ✊🏿Next year Milwaukee‘s own Kon getting in somewhere, scoring title and some more records broken 🤛🏿
Ant is coming for the Nuggets. High stakes Wolves are amazing.
So funny that LeBron will finish his tenure with the Lakers with no titles.
And don’t tell me the bubble title was a real title. 😭
Granting Cade's appeal while denying Ant's appeal is basically saying that Ant was faking injuries at some point. That's pretty crazy.
Would love to see a Celtics vs Nuggets NBA Finals ⛏️ ☘️ best realistic one imo
why does everyone act like west coast games didnt always start at 1030 on the east coast?
Hot take but Minnesota takes out Denver in RD 1
Usually like Nick with his rhetoric on other sports topics, but where is that in these predictions?! I'd love to hear some in depth analysis on why these gentlemen picked who they picked in each series for (x) amount of games. Also they have pretty bland and basketball "politically correct" picks. Very unimaginative. Knicks losing and winning in 7 are both ridiculous and incredulous. 😂 CANT WAIT!
Houston not having a pg is going to be their downfall
Young buck is in his feelings on picks!! SGA 3rd? Lmao
Celtics CAN’T beat nuggets in a series as long as Jokic is in the court… nuggets in 6 to be nice, but honestly I’d have nuggets in 5
Hyped kids have short memory.Denver last year almost win OKC in 6 with two and a half healthy players,this year everybody healthy,easy..
There is 0% chance anyone in the east wins the chip so that’s a truly terrible take. However i will not be surprised if the Celtics come out of the east.
Oh now Ant isn’t healthy.
If jok scored 2 more points a game he'd be 30 pts and more efficient than sga, you bums
Denver won’t beat Minnesota in 1st round 😂
Denver Over Boston in 7
Tatum doesn't need much if any more ramping up. Over his last 8 games he's averaging 24-11-7 on 43/37 splits, the Celtics only lost one of those games, and he'll be comong off 9 full days of rest (sat the last 2 games) before game 1 vs Philly.
When these guys do predictions guess what do the opposite so that means Spurs versus Celtics finals sours win it all
Stop saying "and" nick
Wemby with 1800min played MVP lmao 😂😂
duren over jamal murray is crazy
I predict the playoffs with my family. I keep a score going where if you guess the winner of the series you get one point, if you guess the correct number of games you get one point, if you happen to get both correct it is worth 3 points. It is fun to guess and keep track
Luka ranked 146th is net rating, at 3.8, and his having a demonstrably worse year than last – he should be on the fringe of 2nd team All-NBA discussion…an award he also shouldnt be eligible for, bc he load managed his way through the year, like every year, and then happened to get actually hurt. If he didnt have the LA whistle bump, there'd be no discussion of any awards.
I can’t wait for Damonza to be wrong about my team as he usually has been
Damonza legit has zero ball knowledge it’s crazy
Lol. I think Knicks sweep Hawks. People are overating Hawks. Hawks were mid until teams really starting tanking and resting players.
Celts over 76ers 4-2
Knicks over Hawks 4-1
Cavs over Raps 4-3
Pistons over "Hornets" 4-2
Thunder over "Warriors" 4-1
Rockets over Lakers 4-3
Wolves over Nuggets 4-2
Spurs over Blazers 4-3
i didnt know stephen a smith was in this show