
Sloan Piva
Content Producer at Sporting News
Writer @SportingNews/@NBACanada/@NBA_AU. Special contributor @AthlonSports NBA Preview magazine. Educator. Coach. Public speaker. Ellie & Sam's Dad. UMass grad.
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Sloan Piva • The NBA's 79th regular season has concluded, and the 2025 NBA Playoffs have officially begun. The age-old question remains: Who will win it all? The Sporting News will ponder that question, analyze the NBA championship odds on BetMGM, and dish out our best bets to win it all in the 2025 NBA Finals. Will Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and the reigning champion Celtics bring Boston back-to-back banners for the first time since the Larry Bird era?
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The 2025 NHL Playoffs have finally begun, and the quest for Lord Stanley's Cup appears to be as wide-open a race as ever. The Jets earned the Presidents' Trophy with 56 wins and 116 points, finishing the regular season with a whopping +86 goal differential. Still, the Avalanche, Hurricanes, Golden Knights and reigning-champion Panthers all entered the postseason with shorter odds to win the Stanley Cup Final.
Avalanche playoff tickets 2025: Best costs, seats, schedule, bracket for Denver NHL postseason games
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The Avalanche organization has distinguished itself as one of the best in hockey in the 2020s. This spring, Colorado hopes to win its third Stanley Cup in five years, and its extensive fan base has been clamoring to buy tickets to watch it all go down. Jared Bednar's club finished the regular season with a 49-29-4 record and 102 points, not to mention a +43 goal differential.
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The Canadiens start the postseason against one of the hottest and most talked-about clubs in all of hockey, Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals. But Montreal wants to make this first-round series about itself, and many fans believe it has the roster to make it happen. Nick Suzuki, Cole Caufield and the Habs busted right until the second-to-last day of the regular season to clinch the franchise's first playoff berth since 2021.
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After a storybook season which included Alex Ovechkin becoming the NHL's all-time scoring leader, the Capitals will be one of the top contenders to win the 2025 Stanley Cup Final. It's no surprise to anyone that Caps playoff tickets have been selling fast. Washington went a Metropolitan Division-best 51-22-9 during the regular season, with an Eastern Conference-leading 111 points.
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— Grizzlies got their genius coach fired — 4-8 their last 12 games — Allow the Wolves to score 52 in a quarter, 141 in the game — Losing their way into the Play-In Ja Morant: But check out my new cellie, bruh. I’m throwing a grenade into the home crowd. I’m edgy af. AURA. https://t.co/fNmFt1iAy6

This is such bad hoop. Cavs bench, Knicks not trying, Grizz-Wolves 266 points!? The NBA needs to improve the end of the regular season. Reduce the season by 10 games, get rid of conferences, get rid of back to backs, make wins worth more after the All-Star break, Idk. This sucks

A 4-on-3 Utah power play for 2 minutes and they can’t get a goal. Yeesh