The second round of the 2025 NBA Playoffs are off to a raucous start. The Indiana Pacers are up 2-0 on the East's first-place Cleveland Cavaliers. They, the Denver Nuggets and the New York Knicks have all beaten the higher-seeded teams with remarkable comebacks.

Welcome to Round 2 of the NBA playoffs. The star power has been whittled down from, but there’s still plenty of big names.

Rohrbach: Thunder in 6. If it were just Nikola Jokić vs. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander — a battle of the two leading MVP candidates — we could expect a knockdown, drag-out series, but Oklahoma City's depth will wear out the Nuggets' six-man rotation over the course of a seven-game set. The Thunder are relentless.

It’s a common theme in Round 2 of the NBA playoffs, where the road squads boast a 7-3 mark so far. Nuggets interim head coach David Adelman has plenty of possible theories to explain why home court doesn’t seem to provide as much of an advantage at the moment.

The Boston Celtics secured their first win of the Eastern Conference semifinals and the Minnesota Timberwolves took a second-round series lead during Saturday night 2025 NBA playoffs action. The Celtics routed the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden to cut the Knicks' series lead to 2-1.

Heres's a look at the series schedules for the second round of the NBA playoffs in the Eastern Conference. There's a significant change in how they're structured this year, leaving the league vulnerable to a concerning possibility.

The Indiana Pacers are hosting the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 4 of their second-round NBA playoff matchup on Sunday night. The Pacers have a 2-1 series lead, but the Cavaliers have some momentum after a Game 3 win and with an increasingly healthy roster.

NBA playoffs picks, predictions, odds, TV channel, how to watch, stream Boston Celtics vs New York Knicks NBA playoff game on Wednesday, May 14.

CLEVELAND (WJW) — The Cleveland Cavaliers swept the Miami Heat in the first round of the NBA playoffs and are now looking forward to moving on. The Cavs are against the Indiana Pacers in Round 2 ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder responded in a big way against the Denver Nuggets in Game 2 of their second-round playoff series on Wednesday night. The Thunder won by 43 points to even the series, and the West's top seed scored a record-tying 87 points in the first half.