The road to the Larry O’Brien Trophy continues as the 2016 NBA Playoffs reached the end of its first round. So after a set of blowouts and ugly basketball, it’s now time to preview and predict which team will advance to the conference finals?

Golden State Warriors vs. Portland Blazers

Let’s start with the obvious here. The Warriors are generally expected to advance the Western conference finals as they achieved the best regular season record in NBA history going 73-9, and the next goal is to follow up that regular-season success with a second straight NBA title.

Now that we have the Trail Blazers, do they actually have chance to beat the Warriors in the series? I thought, well, uhm… maybe Damian Lillard gets to play in his hometown in Oakland, and Portland beat them once during the regular season, and the fact that Stephen Curry is injured and has been ruled out for Game 2. Okay, Trail Blazers might have a chance.