Welcome to The Athletic’s daily NBA playoffs betting guide and odds sheet. We’ve partnered with DARKO to provide an analytical NBA projection system to compare team power rankings, spreads and win probabilities. This is just another way of looking at data and the differences between teams to see how the data compares to what we see on the basketball court on a nightly basis. We here at The Athletic are extraordinarily pleased to incorporate DARKO into our daily NBA picks and projections and plan to expand the use of the metric across our NBA offerings.
DARKO (Daily Adjusted and Regressed Kalman Optimized projections) is an attempt to fill these gaps. Created by