NBA stretch-run predictions: Stephen Curry will win scoring title; Lakers, Clippers to meet in first round

Also, the Sixers will claim the East's top seed and Kyrie Irving will join the 50-40-90 club

There's only about a month left in the 72-game, pandemic-shortened 2020-21 regular season, which concludes on May 16. Between end-of-season awards races, battles at the top of both conferences and all the teams trying to avoid or sneak into the play-in, a lot is still up in the air. Below are five predictions as we enter the stretch run. Stephen Curry went for 53 points Monday night, passing Wilt Chamberlain to become the Golden State Warriors' all-time leading scorer. It was Curry's seventh consecutive game with at least 30 points, the longest streak of his career and in the league this season.