The NBA playoffs is a tournament between the top sixteen teams in the NBA split up between the East and West conferences. We are currently in the semifinal round of the conference tournament.
The first round series in the East conference consisted of: the Oklahoma City Thunder (1) beating the Memphis Grizzlies (8) 4-0; the Denver Nuggets (4) beating the Los Angeles Clippers (5) 4-3; the Minnesota Timberwolves (6) beating the Los angeles Lakers (3) 4-1; and the Golden State Warriors (7) beating the Houston Rockets (2) 4-3. This will result in a West conference semifinals between the Thunder and the Nuggets, and the Timberwolves and the Warriors.
The first round in the West conference featured the Cleveland Cavaliers (1) beating the Miami Heat (8) 4-0; the Indiana Pacers (4) beating the Milwaukee bucks (5) 4-1; the New York Knicks (3) beating the Detroit Pistons (6) 4-2; and the Boston Celtics (2) beating the Orlando Magic (7) 4-1. This set up a semifinal matchup between the Cavaliers and the Pacers, and the Knicks vs the Celtics.
As of now, the series between the Thunder and the Nuggets is tied 1-1, the Warriors are tied with the Timberwolves 1-1, the Pacers are beating the Cavaliers 2-0, and the Knicks are leading 2-0 against the Celtics.
But the story of this tournament has been the comebacks. On May 8th, going into the third quarter, the Celtics were beating the Knicks 73 to 61, but during the fourth quarter, the Knicks scored 30 points while the Celtics put up 17, this caused the Knicks to win 91-90 and put them up 2-0 in the series. In the first game of the series, they also posted a 20 point comeback, beating the Celtics 109-105 in overtime. The Knicks are the first team to come back from 20 points down in two consecutive games.
On May 7th, the Thunder were down 1-0 going into their second game in the series against the Nuggets, but the Thunder led in points the whole game and beat the Nuggets 149-106 tying the series 1-1 going into game 3. On May 8th the Warriors played the Timberwolves, the Timberwolves were able to beat the Warriors 117-93, this tied the series 1-1.
Now that two games have been played in each of the conference semifinals series there is no telling how the rest of the playoffs will unfold.