The Best NBA Teams in the Playoffs Right Now, Vol. 4
Written by SOURCE on May 8, 2023
It’s cliché, but the NBA Playoffs have been everything we expected and more. Thankfully, the Philadelphia 76ers and Phoenix Suns decided to make their things competitive by coming back from 0-2 deficits to tie their respective series up. The lower seeds—the eight-seeded Miami Heat and seventh-seeded Los Angeles Lakers are surprisingly—well, not really surprising—leading their matchups.
Things are tightening up with about a week left in the conference semifinals. That is what makes choosing these power rankings as difficult as Draymond Green not arguing with a referee and getting hit with a technical foul.
Right, that difficult.
That said, the team Green reps, the Golden State Warriors, had to take an L this week after dropping two games to the Los Angeles Lakers. And though the Sixers won a thriller in Philly against the Boston Celtics to knot up that series, one team’s performance was more impressive, hence their first-ever entry in Complex’s rankings.
