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NBA upsets: Which top playoff seeds might fall in Round 1?

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As we start the 2020 NBA playoffs with four games Monday (ESPN, starting at 1:30 p.m. ET), one thing is very different about this postseason: No team will have a natural home-court advantage.

Does that mean we will see more upsets? If so, which favorites are most in danger to be knocked out?

Each year I evaluate all the playoff series based on both player and team factors, as explained below.

Using that system, let's rank the series from least likely to most likely upsets.