NBA restart schedule predictions

Okay so since the NBA is going to be releasing the schedule for the restart tonight I thought I should take a crack at making/predicting my own. So, here you go, a predicted schedule for all 22 teams based on their remaining schedules. What you need to keep in mind is that some teams reached their 8 games faster than others, so I had to move onto the next game to make up the bracket. Finally, I had to add three new games because some teams didn’t reach their 8 game criteria:

1.        Trail Blazers vs Magic or Heat
2.         Lakers vs Magic or Heat
3.         Lakers vs Trail Blazers

Western Conference

#1 Lakers	#2 Clippers	#3 Nuggets	#4 Jazz	#5 OKC	#6 Rockets
Rockets	Nets	Spurs	OKC	Jazz	Lakers
Nuggets	Pelicans	Lakers	Pelicans	Wizards	Blazers
Jazz	Mavs	Clippers	Memphis	Memphis	Kings
Jazz	Nuggets	OKC	Lakers	Nuggets	Blazers
Raptors	Suns	Raptors	Lakers	Heat	Suns
Pacers	Nets	Heat	Spurs	Nuggets	Mavs
Blazers	Pacers	Spurs	Spurs	Suns	Jazz
Heat/Magic	OKC	OKC	Mavs	Clippers	Bucks

#7 Mavs	#8 Memphis	#9 Blazers	#10 Pelicans	#11 Kings	#12 Spurs	#13 Suns
Suns	Blazers	Memphis	Kings	Pelicans	Nuggets	Mavs
Clippers	Jazz	Rockets	Jazz	Nets	Memphis	Clippers
Kings	Spurs	Mavs	Clippers	Mavs	Pelicans	Mavs
Blazers	OKC	Celtics	Spurs	Rockets	Jazz	Pacers
Suns	Bucks	76ers	Memphis	Magic	Jazz	Wizards
Rockets	Pelicans	Nets	Kings	Pelicans	Nuggets	76ers
Jazz	Pelicans	Lakers	Memphis	Pacers	Kings	Heat
Bucks	Celtics	Heat/Magic	Magic	Spurs	76ers	OKC

Eastern Conference

#1 Bucks	#2 Raptors	#3 Celtics	#4 Heat	#5 Pacers
Celtics	76ers	Bucks	Bucks	76ers
Heat	Celtics	Wizards	Pacers	Heat
Memphis	Nuggets	Raptors	OKC	Suns
Wizards	Lakers	Nets	Nuggets	Magic
Rockets	Bucks	Wizards	Suns	Rockets
Wizards	Rockets	Memphis	Celtics	Kings
Mavs	Magic	Blazers	Raptors	Lakers
Raptors	Heat	Heat	Lakers/Blazers	Clippers

#6 76ers	#7 Nets	#8 Magic	#9 Wizards
Pacers	Clippers	Kings	Celtics
Wizards	Kings	Nets	OKC
Raptors	Wizards	Pacers	76ers
Suns	Celtics	Nets	Nets
Blazers	Magic	Pelicans	Bucks
Rockets	Clippers	76ers	Celtics
Spurs	Magic	Raptors	Suns
Magic	Blazers	Lakers/Blazers	Bucks

But in all fairness if the league doesn’t let fate decide, then I guess you should let the Heat pick based on better regular-season performance.
To decide who plays the Lakers or Trail Blazers, here’s my suggestion. Adam Silver gets the GMs of the Heat and Magic on a zoom call, take out a coin and tells the Heat GM them to call heads or tails  (because they have the better record). Adam Silver flips the coin and confirms the call to the GMs and the winning GM gets to pick the Trail Blazers to play against (I mean who wants to play Lebron if they could avoid it.) But to be fair, have some people around Mr. Silver just to make sure he’s not lying. Should there be a 2 out of 3? Probably not, you wouldn’t want to mess with fate now, would you? Also, rock-paper-scissor could work but doing it on a zoom call would be harder in case there is any sort of lag.