The NBA regular season has concluded. All participants in the playoffs and play-in tournaments have been determined, and the tournament grid has been formed.
The regular season results have determined six playoff participants in each of the Eastern and Western Conferences, respectively. They will be joined by the two winners of the playoff round, which features teams that finished 7th-10th.
The team of one of the two Ukrainians, Maxim Shulga's Boston Celtics, which took second place in the Eastern Conference, will play in the NBA playoffs. However, another Ukrainian, Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk with Utah, failed to make it to the final round of the tournament, as the club finished in 15th place at the end of the season.
NBA Playoffs Draw
Eastern Conference
- Orlando Magic — Philadelphia 76ers
- Miami Heat — Charlotte Hornets
Western Conference
- Portland Trail Blazers — Phoenix Suns
- “Golden State Warriors” — “Los Angeles Clippers”
The winners of the Orlando-Philadelphia and Blazers-Phoenix series will receive the seventh seed in the playoffs. The losing teams will face the winners of the Miami-Hornets and Warriors-Clippers series, and the final match will determine the two eighth-seeded teams.
NBA Playoff Round Grid
Eastern Conference
- Detroit Pistons — “Eastern Conference No. 8 seed”
- Boston Celtics — “7th seed in the Eastern Conference”
- “New York Knicks” — “Atlanta Hawks”
- Cleveland Cavaliers — Toronto Raptors
Western Conference
- Oklahoma City — “8th seed in the Western Conference”
- San Antonio Spurs — “7th seed in the Western Conference”
- Denver Nuggets — Minnesota Timberwolves
- “Los Angeles Lakers” — “Houston Rockets”
NBA playoff and play-in schedule. nba.com
All playoff round matches are played in a best-of-four format, with the higher seeded team having the first home game.
The tournament's playoff matches will take place from April 14-17, with the playoffs starting on April 18. The current NBA champion is the Oklahoma City Thunder, who defeated the Indiana Pacers in the finals.