Time For Cities/Areas In Both ‘Offs

An observation above indicates areas, thus I note 5 cities/areas have qualifying teams in both the NBA and NHL ‘offs, one L.A. , which had a bad games1 start yesterday, has 3, while none of the 5 have home advantage in all their first round series.

In addition to L.A. which has the Lakers, beaten decisively by the Timberwolves, of the Lakers former area Minneapolis-St. Paul, Clippers (lost by 2 at Denver (Nuggets) and Kings, who have home advantage vs the Edmonton Oilers, hoping to reverse first round series losses in each of the last three seasons, Minneapolis, New York/New Jersey as “areas,” join Miami and Denver with qualifying ‘offs teams, in both the N.H.L. and N.B.A.

The Lakers “off” as over 2 to 1 series “faves” now slight underdogs to Minne (The Wolves are a so impressive (7-2) in road ‘offs tilts the past 2 seasons), and Kings have home “adv” as stated above, while the Clippers, also as noted, do not.

Elsewhere the New York Knicks won at home vs the Detroit Pistons in their series opener while the New Jersey Devils start their series as surprisingly big underdogs vs Carolina (Hurricanes), sans home advantage, with a game at “Robin” Raleigh today.

Denver with both the ’23 season title winning Denver Nuggets, as stated above, at home, and ’22 champion Avalanche doing so at Dallas, vs the Stars joins Minnesota (the NHL Wild open at the ’23 champion Las Vegas Golden Knights) and Miami (the Heat “played in” 2 wins and are huge series underdogs vs NBA East top seed, Cleveland (Cavaliers) while in a highly anticipated series, the defending NHL champion Florida Panthers open at Tampa Bay, vs the ’20 and ’21 NHL champion Lightning.

Notes from a post on the subject, later in last year’s ‘offs, are below.

Cities/Areas With At Least One Team In Both The NHL And NBA Playoffs on May 14, 2024

There has never been an instance in which teams from the same city/area won both the NBA and NHL crowns in the same season.

The great Bobby Clarke, pictured above was an integral member of the title winning 1974 Philadelphia Flyers, who 1 week after the Boston Celtics grabbed their 12th title with a road #7 win at Milwaukee (Bucks) 6’d the Boston Bruins, denying Boston titles in both leagues.