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As the basketball season winds down, the excitement heats up as another NBA Playoff season kicks off in April 2010.

The 2010 NBA Playoff schedule will be announced after the final season's games, beginning with announcement of the official roster on Thursday, April 15 at 3PM ET — leading to a scramble for NBA Playoff tickets that go on sale shortly after — for the hottest NBA basketball games of the year.

Then...let the games begin! The first round of the 2010 NBA Playoffs will start on the weekend of Saturday, April 17 and Sunday, April 18 in an ultimate best of seven series to name the 2010 NBA national champions.

Throughout April and May, stay tuned as ABC, ESPN, TNT, and NBA TV broadcast the games in their entirety.

More about 2010 NBA Finals around the Web:

Around the Web, get complete reports on stats, scores, and who was in and who was out of the running leading up to the finals championship. Meanwhile, keep your TV remotes at the ready for the much-anticipated NBA draft in June....

Yahoo! Sports - NBA Playoffs - Streaming video reports and interviews, the complete TV schedule, the latest scores, stats, breaking news and photos.

Doc's Sports - NBA Playoffs - News, the latest scores, stats & standings, printable playoff brackets, injury reports, NBA betting odds.

Slam! Sports - Basketball - Late breaking news, scoreboard, together with daily stats on assists, blocks, points, steals, blocks and rebounds.

TSN.ca - NBA Playoffs - A series preview and all the teams in contention, their standings in playoff history along with their related regular season logs and stats.

2010 NBA Finals Scoreboard
(Live scores on game nights from Sports Illustrated)

NBA Playoffs Party Resources

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