NBA playoffs 2016, explained

This weekend marks the beginning of the 2016 NBA playoffs, the pinnacle of professional basketball and thus human athletic endeavor in general. And it's no ordinary year in playoff basketball. This year's tournament features an iteration of the Golden

The playoffs are here, and we've got you covered wall to wall starting with our experts' March Madness style brackets. Will the chalk hold? What upsets are in store? Have a look as you sit back an enjoy about, oh, two or so months of NBA playoff coverage.

The 2015-16 NBA regular season has come and gone, but with 82 games in the books, a new chapter is here. With the playoffs beginning, we preview the eight first round matchups and offer everything you need to know about the NBA's second season.

This weekend marks the beginning of the 2016 NBA playoffs, the pinnacle of professional basketball and thus human athletic endeavor in general. And it's no ordinary year in playoff basketball. This year's tournament features an iteration of the Golden

Who will advance to the second round of the NBA playoffs? We polled the ESPN Forecast panel of experts and a panel of fans. Here are the results, along with predictions from ESPN's Basketball Power Index (BPI), FiveThirtyEight and PredictWise.