If the playoffs started tody…..

Well, now it appears HOURLY updates will be necessary to gauge the NBA playoff picture, but what has been confirmed in the last couple of days is that the road to the promised land will go through Cleveland as the Lakers’ lost at Portland has handed it to the Wine & Gold. So the one seeds are in stone, but the rest is anyone’s guess. Cuban and the boys from Dallas have avoided first round automatic exit by going 7-3 in their last 10, thus moving up to the sixth seed and a date with Houston thus avoiding Board Walk and Park Place of the West(LA, Denver) with a good chance to advance to the next round. The only team to play LA even (2-2) has been Portland, where it is well documented that the Lakers haven’t won in five years, so the Blazers gotta figure if they can steal one in LA, then the door is wide open. In the East the Magic are on ‘upset watch’ as Philly tries to hold on to the sixth-seed. Although they’ve swept them, the Sixers are playing some of the best ball in the East and all three games were competitive. The East has a Board Walk & Park Place of their own with Cleveland and Boston, and Chi Town is only a half game back of Philly with one game on the road and one at home but will need the Sixers to stumble. Spots six thru eight could still shuffle the deck, but view the current playoff matchups here, and in the NBA chat rooms.