LeBron James and his Los Angeles Lakers, Golden State Warriorsthe current MVP Joel Embiid and the Miami Heat, current runners-up, will shine starting this Tuesday at some Play-In of the NBA with a very high competitive level, with eight franchises vying for access to the playoffs. The Lakers will face the New Orleans Pelicans, for 7th place, while the Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings will face each other for 8th place in the West. On the Eastern Conference side. The Philadelphia 76ers will face the current NBA runner-up, the Miami Heat, for seventh place and the Chicago Bulls will be the rival of the Atlanta Hawks. The Western Conference games will be played this Tuesday and on the Eastern side, the matchups will be on Wednesday.
The seventh place winners will qualify directly for the NBA Playoffs.which will begin on Saturday, April 20, while the winners of 8th place will have to play a final against the loser of seventh, on Friday, April 19, to see who is the second team per conference to qualify for the final part of the tournament. the NBA.
In the West you will be able to see more than engaging duels, like that of Lebron James vs Zion Williamson, when the Lakers face the Pelicans again. Both teams met last Sunday, when the regular stage was defined and Los Angeles put on a show, beating New Orleans 124-108, removing them from playoff positions and leaving them in the Play-In. For the other key of the Conference, you can see the stellar duel between los Splash BrothersSteph Curry y Klay Thompson against the talented De’Aaron Fox and the powerful Domantas Sabonis, when the Warriors face the Kings.
The winner of the key between the New Orleans Pelicans and the Los Angeles Lakers, which will be played in the Californian city, will not only qualify for the playoffs directly, but in the first round of the NBA finals, they must face the current champion, Denver Nuggets. The other position in the West will have as a rival the surprising Oklahoma City Thunder.
In the Eastern Conference, there will be a high-flying clash with a guaranteed show between the Philadelphia 76ers, revitalized after the return of their leader Joel Embiid, and the Miami Heat of Jimmy Butler, Tyler Herro and Bam Adebayo, finalists last year. This key will be played in Philadelphia and the winner of this match will automatically qualify for the playoffs, where they await New York Knicksseconds in the regular stage.
The other match will be between the Chicago Bulls, six-time NBA winners in the glorious era of Michael Jordan, and the Atlanta Hawks of Trae Young and Dejounte Murray. This confrontation will be at the United Center, in the city of Chicago. The last qualifying place in the East will face the Boston Celticsclear dominators of the regular stage, in the first round of the playoffs.
The teams already qualified for the playoffs, in addition to the aforementioned Boston Celtics, New York Knicks, Oklahoma City Thunder and Denver Nuggets, are the Minnesota Timberwolves, Phoenix Suns, Los Angeles Clippers, Dallas Mavericks, Milwaukee Bucks, and Cleveland Cavaliers , Orlando Magic and Indiana Pacers.
The NBA playoffs will begin on Saturday, April 20 y the Finals on June 6 and will end, at the latest, on the 23rd of the same month, with a hypothetical seventh game.
2024-04-15 19:45:25
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