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The most iconic moments of basketball happen in the NBA playoffs. The whole journey as a team and organization is to reach the playoffs, building towards success to better the game of basketball. While the other 14 teams get an early vacation. It is important to remember that the 30 teams are divided into 2 conferences, the East and the West. The 15 teams of each conference are ranked first and foremost by win percentage.
With the team with the most wins at the end of the regular season earning the 1st seed spot in their conference. How do they decide a tie in seed rank for the NBA Playoffs?
If two teams have the same win record there is NO tiebreaker game played. Instead, there is a set of procedural guidelines to determine which team would seed higher than the other.
We set up a table on how to decide on a tie, according to the official NBA website , read the table top to bottom with the winner being decided as soon as stipulation is met. Each conference is then made up of 3 divisions, making it a total of 15 teams per conference. The section below contains a table of which NBA teams are in which division. The Clippers are not out just yet, they will play a second game to try and secure their original seed of 8th place.
They have 2 opportunities to secure a playoff spot. The winner will advance to the next round against the LA Clippers against the Spurs. Let just say that the Lakers won. Sacramento will therefore be eliminated and done for the rest of the season. The Lakers will have to win a second game against the Clippers to lock the 8th seed. The homecourt advantage goes to the Clippers with the better record. Remember this is a play-in tournament and not the NBA playoffs itself.
The winner will be 8th in the standings and play the number one seed Golden State Warriors in the first round of the NBA playoffs. So as you can see the 7th or 8th seed only needs to win one game while the 9th and 10th seed need to win 2 games. The team with the better record will get a homecourt advantage. The 7th seed, Orlando Magic will faceoff against the 8th seed Detroit Pistons. Orlando will have a home-court advantage as they are the higher seed with the better record.
They will play one game and the winner will take the 7th seed overall in the Eastern Conference standings. They will face the Toronto Raptors in the first round. The loser of this game is not done yet and has one more opportunity to secure the 8th seed by playing the winner of the 9th and 10th seed game.
The 9th seed Charlotte Hornets will face the 10th seed Miami Heat. Charlotte will have the home-court advantage. These two teams will have to win 2 games in a row to secure the 8th spot in the standings.
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