StandingsSunday, Apr 12, 2026

With Game 82 in the books, here's a look at the Eastern Conference playoff seedings ahead of the play-in tournament.

Inside the Miami Heat locker room on Sunday night, everybody's eyes were on a giant television set showing the end of the Orlando-Boston game. Miami goes to Charlotte for a play-in game on Tuesday, while Orlando goes to Philadelphia for a win-and-you're-in game on Wednesday. The Orlando-Philadelphia winner will play No. 2 Boston in Round 1, while the Orlando-Philadelphia loser will play the Miami-Charlotte winner on Friday to decide who plays No. 1 Detroit in an East quarterfinal series.

The Lakers will take on the Rockets in the first round, while the Nuggets and Spurs are on track for a potential second-round showdown.

The Raptors have clinched a playoff spot in the East after beating the Nets 136-101. This will be Toronto’s first playoff appearance in four years. Scottie Barnes closed out his season with an 18-point triple-double, while RJ Barrett and Brandon Ingram contributed 26 and 25 points, respectively. “It’s a big relief,” Barnes said about reaching […]

Jamaree Bouyea had career highs of 27 points and nine assists, Ryan Dunn added 20 points and 11 rebounds, and the Phoenix Suns routed the Oklahoma City Thunder 135-103 on Sunday night in a meaningless regular-season finale for both teams. Koby Brea added 20 points for Phoenix (45-37), which was locked into seventh place in the Western Conference and did not play any starters. The Suns will face either Portland or the Los Angeles Clippers in a play-in game Tuesday night.

The loss means Brooklyn finishes the season with a 20-62 record, and that the future can finally start.

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Mikal Bridges had another short night to extend the NBA's longest active streak of consecutive games played, logging 23 seconds in the New York Knicks' game against Charlotte on Sunday. Bridges was the only Knicks starter to play with the team locked into the No. 3 seed in the Eastern Conference.

It has come down to the final game of the regular season, and the Philadelphia 76ers still don’t know where they will finish in the Eastern Conference. There are still several scenarios where they can finish as the No. 6, No. 7, or No. 8 seed. For them, their best bet is to finish either […] The post Are 76ers’ Tyrese Maxey, Paul George playing vs. Bucks with Joel Embiid out, playoff seeding on the line? appeared first on ClutchPoints.

It was far from the prettiest game, but several key players did enough to ensure the Detroit Pistons earned their 60th win of the season with a 133-121 win over the Indiana Pacers on Sunday. The Pistons ballooned their lead to more than 20 points several times, but some sloppy play and hot 3-point shooting […]

The Cavs will take on the Raptors in the first round.

LaMelo Ball and Brandon Miller each scored 19 points, Kon Knueppel made three 3-pointers in his record-setting rookie season and the Charlotte Hornets beat the New York Knicks 110-96 on Sunday to clinch the No. 9 seed in the Eastern Conference. Coby White also had 19 points for the Hornets, who will host No. 10 Miami in the play-in tournament. Charlotte will have to win that game and then beat the loser of the 7-8 game to reach the playoffs for the first time since 2016.

The Portland Trail Blazers are hunting a guaranteed Play-In spot in the last game of the season, as the Sacramento Kings look ahead to the Draft.

Brooklyn is mercifully done with tanking, put out of their misery with a 136-101 beating at the hands of Toronto before 18,778 at Scotiabank Arena.

The Knicks lost twice on Sunday.

The No. 2-seeded San Antonio Spurs host a hungry Denver Nuggets team that is still fighting to land the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference.

Bennedict Mathurin had 20 points, nine rebounds and eight assists off the bench, and the Los Angeles Clippers defeated the Golden State Warriors 115-110 on Sunday to set up a rematch in the play-in tournament. The Clippers settled for the No. 9 seed and will host the 10th-seeded Warriors on Wednesday after Portland beat Sacramento 122-110 to claim the eighth seed. The Clippers and Trail Blazers finished with identical 42-40 records, but Portland won the tiebreaker based on its better Western ...

The NBA wrapped up its 2025/26 regular season on Sunday, locking in the top six teams in each conference and lining up the teams and seeds for this year’s play-in tournament. While most of the top seeds had already been secured ahead of Sunday’s regular season finale, there were still some meaningful outcomes in today’s […]

The Los Angeles Lakers finished the 2025-26 season as the No. 4 seed in the Western Conference after beating the Utah Jazz and will take on the Houston Rockets in the first round of the 2026 NBA playoffs. They finish the regular season with a 53-29 record. Game 1 is scheduled for Saturday, April 18 […]

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The Spurs finish out the regular season with playoff seeding on the line for the Nuggets

The Washington Wizards closed the 2025-26 regular season on Sunday with a 130-117 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers at Rocket Arena. The result gave the Wiz kids their 26th loss over the team’s final 27 games — mission accomplished in their race to the bottom of the standings. Sunday’s game was shaping up to be […]

The Los Angeles Lakers took the court for the 82nd and final time in the regular season on Sunday evening when they hosted the Utah Jazz. There was a lot at stake for L.A. as a win, coupled with a Denver Nuggets loss to the San Antonio Spurs, would clinch the No. 3 seed and […]

The 2025-26 NBA regular season concludes this Sunday, April 12, with an Eastern Conference matchup as the Cleveland Cavaliers host the Washington Wizards at Rocket Arena. Cleveland (51-30) enters the finale as one of the East's powerhouses, currently sitting in 4th place and looking to sharpen their rotation before the playoffs begin. On the other side, the Wizards (17-64) have endured a historically difficult season, officially claiming the league's worst record. Currently on a nine-game los...

The Lakers will be either the West's No. 3 or 4 seeds in the first round of the playoffs.

The Nets officially finish with the third worst record in the league. Their place in the lottery is set.

The Sixers’ first-half effort was brutal, but they woke up in the third quarter to take care of business.

The Knicks guard made sure of it Sunday after logging just 23 seconds after tipoff against the Hornets, fouling purposefully on the first defensive possession to compel the sub.

The Toronto Raptors host the tanking Brooklyn Nets in their final game this season, hoping to clinch a top-five Eastern Conference playoff position.

The Denver Nuggets again ruled out most of their regular rotation Sunday against the San Antonio Spurs, but three-time MVP Nikola Jokic remains questionable. Jokic needs at least 15 minutes to secure eligibility for postseason awards. Denver enters Sunday as the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference at 53-28. A loss, combined with a Los Angeles Lakers win over the Utah Jazz, would drop the Nuggets to the No. 4 seed. The Lakers hold the tiebreaker over Denver following an overtime victory last ...