LThe NBA already has the 16 teams that will fight to reach the Finals and win the ring on July 23. The Washington Wizards and Memphis Grizzlies have been the last passengers on a train that the Celtics and Lakers had already boarded in the first play-in ties.
With his victory in extremis against the Warriors, Tennesseans will occupy the eighth place in the West and will face the Utah Jazz, the best team of the regular season, in the first round of the playoffs. The winner of this crossing face the winner of the Clippers-Mavericks.
While on the other part of the West square will be the crosses between Phoenix Suns y Los Angeles Lakers and the tie to face the Denver Nuggets y a los Portland Trail Blazers.
For their part Wizards also enter the equation as eighth classified from the East and will see them in the first round with the Philadelphia 76ers, who were first of their conference in the regular season. The winner of this duel they will see the faces with the winner of the crossing between the New York Knicks and the Atlanta Hawks.
On the other side of the East box, the Brooklyn Nets will start the field advantage over the Boston Celtics. The winner of this confrontation will be measured against the winner of the cross between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Miami Heat.
When do the NBA playoffs start?
The qualifying rounds for the title will begin Today Saturday May 22 at 8:00 p.m. (peninsular time) with the first match of the tie between Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Milwaukee Bucks and the Miami Heat, current runners-up.
That same day the first matches of the qualifying rounds are played between Clippers y Mavericks (22.30 horas), Nets vs Celtics (2.00 horas) y Nuggets vs Blazers (4.30 horas).
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