History:
Spring 2023 marked the 25th year in which WhoWins™ has been providing historical victory probabilities, team performance records, and web-site design from the previous millennium on MLB/NBA/NHL best-of-7 playoff series and games. Our first archived web page, from 1999.

Spring 2025 Day 5:
Results from Wednesday 24 April.
NHL
Washington Capitals host, defeat Montreal Canadiens, 3-goals-1
Dallas Stars win at Colorado Avalanche, 2-goals-1(OT)
Los Angeles Kings host, defeat Edmonton Oilers, 6-goals-2
NBA
Cleveland Cavaliers host, defeat Miami Heat, 121-pts-112
Boston Celtics host, defeat Orlando Magic, 109-pts-100
Houston Rockets host, defeat Golden State Warriors, 109-pts-94

Win-Site Orders through Wednesday:
WW@HH: Toronto, Washington, Carolina, Winnipeg, Los Angeles in NHL; Cleveland, Boston, Indiana, Oklahoma City in NBA
WL@HH: Vegas in NHL; New York and Denver in NBA
LW@HH: Dallas (actually now LWW@HHV) in NHL; Houston and Lakers in NBA
Other: Florida NHL won Game 1 in Tampa Bay.

No Sweet Sixteen:
The victory by the Detroit Pistons in their Game 2 in New York over the Knickerbockers snaps a best-of-7 format NBA playoffs 15-game losing streak by the Pistons, begun with 2008 NBA Semifinals Games 5-6 losses to the Boston Celtics, continuing through series losses through sweeps in the 2009 NBA Preliminary round by the Cleveland Cavaliers, in the 2016 Preliminary round by Cleveland again, and in the 2019 Preliminary round by the Milwaukee Bucks, and finally terminated after Game 1 to the Knickerbockers.

Spring 2025 Ouster Board:
start (in Indiana NBA): 4/29, 1:11pmEDT

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