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Chicago, Miami, San Antonio, and Oklahoma City were the first four teams to clinch their playoff berths. But those teams saved their spot nearly two weeks ago; so what do the NBA playoffs look like now?<\/p>\nChicago, Miami, San Antonio, and Oklahoma City were the first four teams to clinch their playoff berths. But those teams saved their spot nearly two weeks ago; so what do the NBA playoffs look like now?<\/p>\n
In addition to those four teams, seven more have also clinched their playoff berth. The East makes up four of those teams with Indiana, Boston, Atlanta, and Orlando claiming their spots in the past week and a half. The Eastern conference has also seen six teams drop out of the playoff running altogether \u2013 Detroit, New Jersey, Toronto, Cleveland, Washington, and Charlotte have all been eliminated.<\/p>\n
The three teams that have saved their spot in Round One in the Western Conference are the L.A. Lakers, the L.A. Clippers, and Memphis. Five teams in the West have seen their playoff hopes die \u2013 Portland, Minnesota, Golden State, Sacramento, and New Orleans.<\/p>\n
So even with five teams still to claim their own spot, what would the NBA playoffs look like if they were to begin today? Going by rankings alone:<\/p>\n
\u00a0In the East:<\/strong><\/p>\n (1) Chicago Bulls<\/a> vs. (8) Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> In the West:<\/strong><\/p>\n (1) San Antonio Spurs<\/a> vs. (8) Utah Jazz Which matchup excites you most about the NBA playoffs? Do you think there are likely to be any dark horses that will emerge?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chicago, Miami, San Antonio, and Oklahoma City were the first four teams to clinch their playoff berths. But those teams saved their spot nearly two weeks ago; so what do the NBA playoffs look like now? In addition to those four teams, seven more have also clinched their playoff berth. The East makes up four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(2) Miami Heat<\/a> vs. (7) New York Knicks
\n<\/a>(3) Indiana Pacers<\/a>\u00a0vs. (6) Orlando Magic
\n<\/a>(4) Boston Celtics<\/a> vs. Atlanta Hawks<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/a>(2) Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> vs. (7) Denver Nuggets
\n<\/a>(3) Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> vs. (6) Dallas Mavericks
\n<\/a>(4) Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> vs. (5) Memphis Grizzlies<\/a><\/p>\n