I agree with you on East. Felt like it was going to be Boston from start unless antekoumpo was fully healthy. The East like normal is just much weaker.I was just wondering if maybe the Mavs are the under the radar contender if Kyrie plays like this. Doncic put up an epic stat line this year. They had a pretty solid record in a stacked conference that was stacked with quality/parity.
If I had to put odds right now I feel like Boston and Dallas/OKC/Denver/Minn in the west all have about an equal shot and none of them is some heavy favorite. On a neutral cout I'd take those four over Boston but Boston is going to have home court.
It would be more fun if someone besides Boston comes out of East, just hard to see it. I really don't have a heavy favorite of the west teams. Might have been Denver a week ago but not after dropping those two at home convincingly.
I feel tomorrow's timberwolves/Nuggets game will be the West winner. About of big of Game 4 as I can remember though you get to this stage they're all big.