The Most Unbelievable Predictions In NBA History

My prediction: Knicks will not make the finals this year.

Skip Bayless' one doesn't count. He makes 1 bilion predictions per day, he's got to be right at least once in a lifetime... :)

3020, the Kawhi laugh will still be a meme. I'm calling it

In 8 years I’m gonna go 7th overall to the hornets

Im not an avid NBA fan, but back in my college days in 2011, I randomly told some of my friends that the Bucks will be champ within the decade. I remember saying this because, for some reason, I felt like the Bucks were one of the obscure teams at the time and that It would be fun to watch an obscure team to win out of nowhere. Thanks Giannis.

The craziest Basketball prediction I ever had was UVA losing to the 16th seed. And only reason I had a feeling that would happen was because in the previous year I felt that I were always barely coming away with a W despite being a relatively high seed coupled with the fact that I only really followed march madness and not the regular college season.

The Mavericks will win the 2029 finals in 6 games

The 2019 playoffs is like a sports anime. And the main team is toronto. They go through many struggles and many clutch shots. In the end they make it to the finals, and finally defeat the undefeatable.

You missed a GIANT one.. in June 2010 Stephen A Smith predicted the Heat would not only keep Dwyane Wade, but bring in Bosh and Lebron too (something I myself predicted for a full year after i realized what they did in 2008)..... Most "experts" had Wade going to Chicago, Lebron to NY, and Bosh to anywhere but Miami. Smith's prediction led to ESPN re-hiring him after canceling his ESPN2 show.... he hasn''t left the company since.

I grew up near LA as a Lakers fan. When I went to University of Illinois in 2012-2015, I always told my collegiate peers (most were Bulls fans), “Lakers in 2020”. My only rationale was that Lakers tend to have a dynasty every 20 years or so. Miraculously, Lebron and AD led the Lakers to a title in 2020.

The draft guy was looking at woj’s twitter, he always puts who’s gonna get picked a half minute or more before the pick is made.

the craziest prediction ive ever made was when i was in fifth grade (Im in 7th rn) I wrote down in my bob ross journal "Russell Westbrook for Chris Paul" (keep in mind this was in 2018 when russ was averging a triple double and cp3 was the robin to hardens batman

Someone is going to win the NBA championship. Mark my words

I got almost nothing to do with basketball, but damn your videos are so good! So entertaining, very well-written and with a huge amount of research! I love your dedication!

I remember one summer suggesting to my brother the best available players the Kings should sign are Marco Belinelli and Kosta Koufos based on needs, fit, and salary requirements. Well... Free agency went by and the Kings signed both of them. We laughed about it and had a beer over it.

10:19 that guy is a legend 💀

Just before the start of the 73-9 season for the farriors I was at a summer camp where they had a bank and so money doesn't get stolen you have to give a letter and 3 numbers. I picked W because the warriors are my favorite team and 739 because I believed the warriors line up was better than what the bulls had.

In the case of the analyst predicting Giannis's future numbers, that is a bit of luck combined with a ton of data, expertise and instinct. In the case of the kid predicting the Raptors' ring, that is pure chance. There are millions of people out there making predictions, many of which are non-random, plausible outcomes. That's why some of the are bound to come true, and we hear about them because it seems miraculous.

The most accurate pick I’ve ever made was Zion going number 1 🤯🤯

I had seen a comment in a video about Giannis like 6 years ago. There is man said "This kid will be an MVP one day"

This guy has among the highest quality sports videos out there. Always impressed

I remember a few years ago I wanted to go to a Heat vs Lakers game because I wanted to watch Lebron play, unfortunately I didn't get the chance. The next day I'm in school and I'm kinda upset that I couldn't go and my friend cheered me up by saying they might match up in the finals. Later that year the Heat and Lakers matched up in the finals.

for the skip Bayless 73-9 prediction he was probably just gassing up how good the warriors were by saying they would beat the record by 1 game.

Jason Terry is a legend. He backed up that tattoo throughout the playoffs with some clutch moments and consistency.

2045: Knicks still sign horrible players to max contracts (Sorry Knicks fans)

My prediction 2k22 will have Charles Barkley's 1993 Suns and Reggie Miller's 1998 pacers.... calling it

I made a prediction years ago whenever Chandler Parsons was still on the Rockets with Harden. I basically remember seeing Chris Paul play, and I said that he’d come to the rockets, years ahead, and my dad and brother laughed at me... until it actually happened. It was pure luck tho

I remember when i was a little ass kid my brother asked who i thought would go to the superbowl before the season started and i randomly chose the colts and bears, cause throughout me liking football those were the only teams i liked on cable tv. That happened in 2007 and it took me a few years to remember i actually guessed the right teams

I predicted the Lakers vs heat finals this year in January and I have the Facebook post to prove it. I predicted Lakers in 6 too. All my friends were calling me and everything it was dope.

I am back from June of 2023 and wow, what a season it was! I mean, who would have predicted that the Dallas Mavericks would be the NBA champs after a 4-2 win over the Bucks in the finals!

When you have millions of people “predicting” some are bound to be right

I remember reading an article on Bleacher about LeBron going to L.A a year before he left. Never will forget that.

Klay Thompson wasn't technically making a prediction; he was being diplomatic before a game with the Raptors. And at that time Raptors were doing well and most likely it would be either the Raptors or Bucks coming out of the east. Also he never speaks in certain terms but says: "And who knows, it (the game with the Raptors coming up) might be a preview of June."

I predicted that France would win the 2018 World Cup after I watched them lose 0-1 to Germany in the 2014 quarter-finals. I gotta say, I'm still very proud of myself for that one considering how sure I was. I even put money on them to win every single game during the 2018 World Cup and made a ton on money on it. France had no losses and had one draw in the entire tournament. Then in the Final, I predicted that Mandžukić would score the first goal, and he did. It was against his own team, but I still won the bet. I also bet that Pogba, Mbappé, and Mandžukić would score in the Final. To this day, I still don't know how I was so sure about all of that. I'm not one to talk about there being energy and stuff floating in the universe, but it's one of those things that just coves over you and you know exactly what's gonna happen down to a very specific degree. I haven't been to a casino since because I'm afraid I used up all my good luck or clairvoyance during that 2018 World Cup lol.

The year the Lakers acquired LeBron I predicted the Lakers would end the season with a little over 35 wins and battling for the 10th spot. Mind you this was when Vegas and everyone else was predicting them as a favorite to win it all. A year later I had a ton of people replying to my comment laughing and asking how the hell I knew that would happen? My reasoning was because the Lakers were horrible the year prior and adding LeBron wouldn't increase their win total much. Regardless of everyone else freaking out over them adding LeBron

He’s gonna need to make a part 2 because the one dude who predicted the the 2021 finals matchup of the bucks and suns back in 2016 needs some more publicity

2097 Los Angles Cyborgs defeat the New York Humanoids in 6 games Re-engineered Kobron with the 3 point no hand dunk to seal the game.

Jason Terry's pre championship tattoo is by far the most unbelievable. Knowing everyone was on lebrons bandwagon. What a finals

Craziest prediction I ever had was the 2010 National Championship score Being 37-21 Alabama, literally a pointless touchdown with less than a minute left saw my prediction fall short by one point until a 2 time Groza Finalist K had his XP bounce off the Cross Bar and I couldn’t believe it. Side note. Me and my dad always debated what college players would pop in the NFL. He was a Reggie Bush homer and I told him in my Opinion Adrian Peterson when healthy is the best running back I’ve ever seen and I told him Reggie was to flashy for the NFL. Safe to assume that was mostly true.

One of my prediction after the Heat big 3 was put together is for them to go after a PG, and I exactly predicted it would be Mike Bibby. I predicted the Mavs to win the 2011 championship in the beginning of the playoffs. In the same year 2 weeks before the 2011 nfl playoff started Packers win the Super Bowl and I’m a Chargers fan. In 2014 after watching the Warriors vs Kings, since im a King fan, first game of the season for both teams that the Warriors will be in the conference finals because how great their defense was the year prior and how good Kerr had them playing. Also I was confident that when the Falcons were up 28-3 against the Patriots at the half, that the Patriots will make a come back and I told the guy who made a bet for the Falcons to win and was rubbing it in when he Patriots was up 28-3 and was triggered at the end of the game 🤣.

Well, I did predict the '12 Lakers would fight for the 8th seed and at-best finish 6th due to awful chemistry with that Nash, Kobe, Artest, Gasol, Howard team that barely finished at 7th. My friends all thought I was nuts which is how I felt about everyone who foolishly locked them as the next champs.

i find the giannis prediction funny bc there’s a clip of troydan saying 5 years before giannis won mvp (after pulling him from a pack in myteam) that “he’s going to be an MVP in the next 5 years im calling it” and 5 years later, he won it 💀

the woj one wasnt a prediction woj knows everything

My prediction was 2 hours before Game 5 in the 2019 Finals. I predicted that Raptors would lose by 1 point. And was right. To be 100% honest, that was a shitpost in real life. I was like, Curry, Klay, Kevin are phenomenal so they might take my team out. But that was still a crazy prediction imo.

as much as Skip Bayless to me as my favorite pet peeve, I am impressed that he predicted that 73-9 season by the Warriors

A guy named Jarrett Plahmer predicted in 2016 that the Bucks and Suns will face each other in the finals in 2021 and he was right out of no where he than said Bucks win in 7 123-115 in game 7 This guy is a genius he needs to be included in this video, even crazier than Locas

That editing at 6:08 Terry shoots it misses and then proceeds to celebrate 😂

I predicted in hockey that the Blues would win the cup in 2019 in December!!!

lmao this guy makes the most trivial information sound like a groundbreaking scientific breakthrough

I think my best prediction was a few years back when my friend and I were chatting. And I was like "D-Book is gonna drop 60 or more points this season", low and behold he dropped 70 a few nights later

and to think this year JR Smith, yes, JR SMITH predicted this year’s NBA Finals in January (Heat-Lakers), wow

Back in 2014 I called warriors dynasty. I'm a little sour that KD joined the team to make everybody assume the dubs dynasty was because of stacked teams but when we win without him this year, it'll become apparent to everyone how great steph klay and dray are

i would've died if lucas replied to this video with "don't worry jimmy, they haven't found me yet..." 😂

I predicted Fred Vanvleet was really underrated and would be the starting shooting guard one day.

3018 Vince carter is still in the nba I’m calling it edit: these comments are committing r/wooosh

I feel like when Gainas was in college he was better than his rookie season because he was convertible Then when he got to his rookie year of nba he wasn’t because he wasn’t used to iy

My dad predicted “AUBURN’S GONNA WIN THE FOOTBALL GAME!!” With the exact commentary, score, and player who would take it to the house, TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE GAME

6 games for Raps to win is a good guess since it is the most common number of games played in an NBA finals series. An NBA finals series has been decided on game 6 14 times in the last 30 years (1991-2021). That is almost 50%. Still very impressive.

Jimmys videos are like an essay. He has an introduction, does the actual title of the video, then goes over his video like a conclusion. Am I wrong?😂

Alex Caruso gonna mvp in 1 year, calling it

You forgot when Stephen A Smith back in the 2012 NBA Finals moments before game 1, predicted that the Thunder will take Game 1 105-94. He got not only the Thunder winning game 1 right but he got the exact same score.

Skip also predicted Tim Tebow's incredible run in 2011.

It was never really a prediction but watching luka in the euro league, I knew he'd be a problem

I once guessed an entire Finals run: all 4 opponents, with the Finals loss. It happened once in my life. Maybe its a 15 minutes of fame type of thing

I was once watching a Habs vs Flyers game with my friend who was a big Simon Gagner fan. I was joking that he gets injured so often that he's prob going to leave this game with a left leg injury.....and he did.

My wildest prediction would be not in the NBA but in the Miss Universe, was watching it with my family and of course whenever it's the Miss Universe my country goes ape shit and makes it like an occassion. With that being said, I literally predicted that it was a mix-up and it was actually Philippines that won when Steve Harvey announced Colombia as the winner and when I said it, seconds later he literally did mixed it up. I had chills all over my body and my mind was fucked up.

This is the lamest thing you’d do when you’re a time traveler.

That kid you predicted the Raptors winning in 6 games, was saying that for the last 5 years for the up coming season and put it in his yearbook as he knew it would get a laugh from his friends .

7:18 if you shoot 1000 halfcourt shots, you'd eventually hit 1😂

I was watching the all star game in 2018 and I saw giannis without knowing much about him, and I called that he'd win MVP the next year, which he did. Not that crazy but still fun

What about the time when KDs coach predicted his team, his position of the pick and his teammates

Brandon Jennings' bucks in six was not a prediction, but it deserves an honorable mention

Ok fine. I’m just gonna say bucks in 5 for 2021 season

I predicted, when ja Morant was in Murray State, that he would be picked third by the Memphis Grizzlies (my favorite team). I was so close to be perfectly right...

On kobes last game I said to my dad watch him pop off and score 60+ points (as a joke) and 1 61 point game later I was in awe

That guy Andrew Sharpe didn't predict anything . Giannis was averaging 26-10-5 in 2017 and I think anybody looking at his career trajectory can see that 2016 was a breakout year for him.

Yeah that raps prediction was insane. My prediction was raps in 6 and I did that at the start of the playoffs. 😂

Back in the day before Shaq was with the Lakers, I used to rock my Shaqnosis Reeboks with a Lakers cap. When he signed, it was an interesting day at the local trade card store.

Year 3039 The Hawaiian Cthulhu’s will defeat the Planet X Chambas 249 to 243 by way of a game winning 8 point blast from the star belt Mark your calendars boys

10:20 Woj was tweeting the selections prior to the commissioner announcing them. That's how the guy knew.

I'm from Nova Scotia and a million buddies of mine made that exact "prediction" about the raptors haha. The Nickname for Toronto is the 6...so when we talk raptors in the finals every year someone in the group is always the one to say "raptors in 6" haha welcome to Canada.

I had a bit of a prediction myself in December 2019 I watched New York Knicks vs Denver Nuggets and at the end of the game I told my dad that the New York Knicks coach should be fired do to Knicks playing just really bad and he laughed thinking I was joking a few days later he was fired

For the raptors playbook prediction, Toronto is referred to as "the six", so honestly it isnt super crazy

My best prediction ever happened on September 6th, 2020. At 3am at a birthday party, being drunk asf, while discussing nba, for some reason I wrote down in the notes: Lakers - Miami 4-2. Remembered I did this a couple of days after the finals.

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Brah... this is my favorite video so far. 😱 WTF! 73-9 with Jason Terry out played LBJ in game 6 plus the Toronto Raptor winning tbe NBA 🏆in 2019 in 6 games... what...!? My greatest protection was Italy 🇮🇹 winning 4-0 in football ⚽️ I was at a wedding for my wife's cousin all day plus at the bar 🍸 I kept telling everyone that Italy will win 4-0 the next day the did just that... 💯😎

I'm not even an NBA fan, but you make some very interesting videos

I think the yearbook was him predicting his local team to win as his schools in Toronto l, but the games is still crazy though

I recall people discussing Durant going to the Warriors on the radio way before it happened.

love how im watching this just after he dropped 50 in the finals

TRvidr troydan predicted in a 2k16 video that giannis would win mvp in 3 years

Jxmy: what is the craziest accurate prediction you ever made? Me: that I will not pass that chemistry class

When I worked for B/R, one of my writers predicted Chris Weidman would become the first man to beat Anderson Silva in the UFC, winning the middleweight title in the process. He wrote the article in 2011.

The kid who predicted the raps in 6 isn’t that crazy. He lives in Toronto and 6 is the most common outcome of a finals series.

When frank Clark went to the chiefs I predicted he would break nick foles collarbone on the jags first drive of the season

one thing i never heard anyone mention when Durant went to GS is imagine how it felt for KD, who we know is a ball fanatic, to watch GS play a beautiful style of ball as they beat him while he had to deal with Russ playing the polar opposite of beautiful ball and harden secretly fantasizing about playing non beautiful ball. is it hard to understand why it was such an attractive destination? today jan. 5th 2023 we all view Russ and Harden as great individual players who dont equate to winning at the highest level. KD was playing with both of them. that is absolute hell for a bball connoisseur.

Lamelo ball will be drafted 8th in the 2020 NBA draft to the Detroit pistons

I once predicted that the Cavs will bounce back from a 3-1 deficit vs GSW. I even told that to all my friends and they just laughed at me lol

The 2017 nba draft one is pretty obvious about what happened. Guy was probably reading the tweets by Woj or somebody else about who the picks are before they’re announced

coming back to this video i remeber troydan pulling a giannis card in 2016 and saying he’ll win the mvp in 3 years (2019)