Forecast: West playoffs, first round
— -- We asked our ESPN Forecast panel who would prevail in Round 1 of the Western Conference playoffs, and our voters see all of the top seeds advancing. But not without a little drama.
The closest vote saw the panel picking Houston over Portland in seven.
How it works: 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 overall prediction is based on a combination of the mean, median and mode of the predictions for each series.
Check out the ESPN Forecast results below ( and click here for our East forecast):
Win in 4: 16.7% | Win in 5: 30.5% | Win in 6: 19.6% | Win in 7: 18.4%
Win in 4: 1.2% | Win in 5: 2.4% | Win in 6: 6.5% | Win in 7: 4.7%
Win in 4: 10.9% | Win in 5: 23.5% | Win in 6: 19.8% | Win in 7: 21.4%
Win in 4: 2.6% | Win in 5: 4.9% | Win in 6: 10.0% | Win in 7: 6.9%
Win in 4: 11.4% | Win in 5: 23.3% | Win in 6: 18.9% | Win in 7: 21.1%
Win in 4: 2.5% | Win in 5: 5.0% | Win in 6: 10.4% | Win in 7: 7.3%
Win in 4: 7.8% | Win in 5: 18.1% | Win in 6: 16.9% | Win in 7: 20.3%
Win in 4: 4.4% | Win in 5: 7.9% | Win in 6: 14.0% | Win in 7: 10.7%