Porzingis is officially back, and Celtic are infinitely favored, with a 91.3% chance of winning the championship

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2024-06-06 12:25Posted on the official account of Beijing Beiqing Sports News

On the morning of June 7, Beijing time, the first game of the 2023-24 NBA Finals series will be played in Boston. ESPN predicts that the home team Celtics have a 65.7% chance of winning, while the Mavericks have only a 34.3% chance of winning. Lapsian center Porzingis of the Celtics team has also officially announced his return to the game, and most fans agree with ESPN's prediction that the Celtics are far more likely to get off to a winning start to the series than the Mavericks are likely to win, regardless of the final outcome of the Finals.

The 2.21-meter-tall powerful center Porzingis joined Celtic at the start of the season and the Green Army filled the championship puzzle. The Celtics are the only team in the league to win more than 60 games in the regular season, a far more winning percentage than any other team, and they are aiming for the championship. Porzingis averaged 20.1 points, 7.2 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game in 57 regular season appearances, and he even shot 37 percent from three-point range.

It's just that after entering the playoffs, Porzingis played only four games due to a calf injury and failed to participate in the second round of the Eastern Conference and the Eastern Conference Finals Series. In the four playoff games he played, Porzingis averaged 12.3 points, 5 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 1.3 steals and 1.5 blocks per game.

Attention has been paid to the timing of the return of the Latvian striker, and Porzingis gave the exact answer: "Every day I'm getting better, I'm going to be back in the first game of the finals, I've been trying to get fit and I'm very excited to be back in the team, and we're going to go to the finals with confidence and the goal is to win the title." Porzingis, who previously played for the Mavericks, said: "I played there for two and a half years and I'm happy for everyone in Dallas, and the success they've had this season is well deserved. ”

The Celtics' path to the playoffs is far smoother than that of the Mavericks, and the rest time is much more abundant than that of the Mavericks, coupled with the return of Porzingis, makes the prospect of the Green Army winning the championship infinitely optimistic. According to the latest model simulation predictions of the NBA database website BBR, the probability of the Celtics winning the championship is as high as 91.3%, while the Mavericks are only 8.7%.

Text/Beiqing Sports Liu Ailin

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