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The 3-seed Portland Trail Blazers will take on the 6-seed Oklahoma City Thunder in the first round of the NBA Playoffs. The Blazers will face a team that swept the season series 4-0 against them. Data and analytics site FiveThirtyEight is giving Portland only a 23 percent chance to advance to the second round:
NBA playoffs/championship odds:https://t.co/AOrx3xBIJi pic.twitter.com/mfGAaFyZU5
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 11, 2019
They only have a 6 percent chance of making the conference finals, per FiveThirtyEight.
Portland has earned home-court advantage in the series, with the first game in the series being played Sunday. You can find the entire schedule here.