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NBA playoffs 2023: The stars, stats and storylines that matter most this postseason

The NBA postseason is here, with 20 teams still fighting for the 2022-23 title.

And after a campaign of blockbuster trades, record scoring numbers, the end of a historic playoff drought and a wild race to the finish to decide play-in tournament seeding, who is going to win this thing?

The No. 1-seeded Milwaukee Bucks and Denver Nuggets sure hope home-court advantage throughout the postseason helps. (Having MVP-caliber big men doesn't hurt, either.)

The defending champion Golden State Warriors and the Boston Celtics, the teams that battled in last season's NBA Finals, took drastically different roads back to the postseason.