ESPN Forecast: Spurs will survive

As expected, the Clippers-Spurs series has been quite the first-round battle. The two Western powers are tied 2-2, with each team already winning a game on the road.

So who has the edge now?

We asked our ESPN Forecast panelists to update their predictions for this series, and our voters still see the defending champs surviving -- it just might take an extra game.

How it works: The ESPN Forecast panel predicted each team's likelihood of winning each of the potential games and each team's likelihood of winning the series. The top-line "Forecast" is based on a combination of the mean, median and mode of the predictions for each series.

(3) Clippers vs. (6) Spurs

BPI Projection:

Spurs advance: 51.7%

Clippers advance: 48.3%