ESPN Forecast: Updated Finals prediction

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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

With back-to-back overtime games in Oakland, the 2015 NBA Finals are off to a thrilling start. So where do we go from here as the now-best-of-five series shifts to Cleveland?[br /][br /]After originally picking the [url TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://espn.go.com/nba/team/_/name/gs/golden-state-warriors" ]Golden State Warriors[/url] to defeat the [url TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://espn.go.com/nba/team/_/name/cle/cleveland-cavaliers" ]Cleveland Cavaliers[/url] in six games heading into Game 1, our experts are now predicting a seven-game series win for [url TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://espn.go.com/nba/player/_/id/3975/stephen-curry" ]Stephen Curry[/url] & Co.[br /][Ads /][br /]How it works:[/b] The ESPN Forecast panel predicted each team's likelihood of winning each of the seven potential games and each team's likelihood of winning the series. The top-line "Forecast" is based on a combination of the mean, median and mode of the predictions for each series.[br /][br /][i]Editor's note: Predictions were made prior to Game 3 of the series.[/i][br /][br /](1) Warriors vs. (2) Cavaliers[br/][br/][sectionHeader]Related Video[/sectionHeader][promoExternal HREF="http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=13040878&ex_cid=espnapi_internal" IMAGE="http://a.espncdn.com/media/motion/2015/0608/dm_150608_nba_thtv_4v/dm_150608_nba_thtv_4v.jpg" TITLE="Game two in 126 seconds" DESCRIPTION="TrueHoop TV presents a look back at Game 2 of the NBA Finals." ][br /]

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