It is the Playoffs positioning time in the NBA.
Upon entering Thursday, there are 89 games in the season. The 10 postseason teams of the Eastern Conference are established; Cleveland, Boston, New York and Indiana are in the playoffs, Detroit and Milwaukee are about to join them, while Orlando, Atlanta, Miami and Chicago are on the probable playing field.
At the West Conference, Oklahoma City is the number 1 seed and Houston is in the playoffs. The Los Angeles Lakers, Denver, Golden State and Minnesota enter Thursday with playoff places, with the Los Angeles and Memphis clippers chasing them and trying to stay out of the game. Dallas and Sacramento are fighting for game literas, with Phoenix, Portland and San Antonio still alive for them too.
Add it and 23 of the 30 teams are still playing for more than the probabilities of lottery with a week and a half to go in the regular season.
Orlando in Washington-Grande for magic in terms of this game sowers.
Milwaukee in Philadelphia: Bucks are on the verge of securing a position in the playoffs.
Minnesota in Brooklyn, is not a must, but I could feel it for the wolves in their search to avoid the game.
Memphis in Miami – The Grizzlies are sliding (lost four in a row), the heat is sizzling (won six in a row).
Portland in Toronto-the thin hopes of Blazers for the West game would probably require winning.
Golden State in the Lakers: potential first round. Stephen Curry. LeBron James. Do we need to say more?
It is a double game of TNT on Thursday, with the heat of the Grizzlies at 7:30 pm
NBA TV has a double head on Friday: Phoenix in Boston (7:30 pm) and Denver in Golden State (10 pm).
Oklahoma City (+175) is favored to win the NBA title, according to Betmgm Sportsbook, followed by Boston (+190), Cleveland (+500), then Denver and the Lakers (both +1400) and Golden State (+1600).
April 11 – The 30 NBA teams play.
April 12, without games.
April 13: The 30 NBA teams play at the end of the regular season.
April 15: Finalists No. 7 and No. 8 on both conferences play to start the game tournament. Winners are seed number 7 for playoffs; The losers will organize game elimination games on April 18.
April 16: Finalists No. 9 and No. 10 in both conferences play. The winners go to April 18; The losers are finished for the season.
April 18 – The losers of the April 15 game are hosts of the winners of the April 16 game. The winners are seed number 8 for playoffs; The losers are finished for the season.
April 19: NBA playoffs begin.
—The Homa City, Shai Gilgous-Alexander, has 69 consecutive games of 20 points, something only Wilt Chamberlain (which twice had stripes of a single season of 80 games), Oscar Robertson (which had a streak of 76 games of a season) and Michael Jordan (which had a streak of 69 seasonal games) in the same season. OKC plays Friday in Houston.
“The league record for triple made in a season is in pace to fall on Sunday.” 30,853 3s have been carried out so far this season; The record is 31,579, established last season.
—Boston (1,356) is seven triples to match the team record of a season, set two years ago by Golden State. The Celtics are on their way to break that mark on Friday against Phoenix.
“For the first time, the NBA could make three players make 300 triples in a season.” Malik Beasley of Detroit has 295, Anthony Edwards of Minnesota has 292 and Stephen Curry by Golden State has 282.
Chris Paul de San Antonio, a month or so to turn 40, is the second oldest player in the NBA behind LeBron James. And Paul is on his way to starting the 82 games this season, which would make him the second oldest player in the NBA history to do so, behind John Stockton in Utah.
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