StandingsMonday, Apr 13, 2026

It’s officially the midway point of the Timberwolves season. Have they impressed or disappointed you so far?

The Denver Nuggets fought off the San Antonio Spurs 128-118 to end their regular season with a 12-game winning streak and capture the 3rd seed in an impressive performance.

The full bracket and schedule for the 2026 NBA Playoffs including 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 undermanned Lakers are underdogs against the Rockets in the first round of the playoffs.

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.

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NBA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Rockets fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. This week’s question asked about the teams in Houston’s playoff tier — the Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves and […]

The second of the season for the Charlotte Hornets may be one of the best teams in the league, but they still finished with the No. 9 seed in the Eastern Conference. The Hornets turned things up on both sides of the ball, and they gave their opponents problems in almost every single game down […] The post Hornets make dominant NBA history despite finishing with No. 9 seed in East 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 […]

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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.

If the Warriors can get through both play-in games this week, their reward is a Sunday road game in Oklahoma City

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.

Nuggets face brutal playoff path with Timberwolves, Thunder, and Spurs looming.

The Utah Jazz are positioned well in the NBA Draft Lottery

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 […]

Stephen Curry's Warriors vs. Kawhi Leonard's Clippers is set, as is the 76ers vs. Magic.

The Lakers locked up home court and once again finished with a top-four seed under head coach JJ Redick.

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 […]

Big results on both ends.

Boston finishes the regular season on a 13-3 run and are the favorites to come out of the East.