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NBA playoffs: What's real and not in the conference finals?

All four teams are still afloat in the NBA's conference finals -- and things just keep getting spicier.

The Boston Celtics kept their season going by beating the Miami Heat in Friday's Game 5 121-108. The Denver Nuggets, meanwhile, are hoping to make yet another improbable comeback from a 3-1 series deficit, this time against the mighty Los Angeles Lakers.

Ahead of Game 5 of the Western Conference finals Saturday (9 p.m. ET, TNT/ESPN Radio), our experts take a look at what to believe in these series. From Anthony Davis' starring role in the Lakers' push to make the Finals for the first time in a decade to the Celtics and Heat perhaps giving us a glimpse of the future of the East, we're sorting out what's real or not.