The Portland Trail Blazers will enter the NBA’s season restart as the ninth seed, 3.5 games back of the eighth-seeded Memphis Grizzlies. Portland will be joined by the New Orleans Pelicans, Sacramento Kings, San Antonio Spurs and Phoenix Suns in the hunt for a playoff spot. Analytics site FiveThirtyEight has released its updated predictions for the season restart, adjusting their model to take the new eight-game schedule into account. These predictions are “based on 100,000 simulations of the rest of the season and playoffs, using team ratings to generate win probabilities for each game.
FiveThirtyEight Offers Predictions for Eighth Seed Race
