The 2024 NBA playoffs will quickly be right here and groups are starting to guide their postseason spots earlier than the common season ends April 14.
The highest six groups from every convention will likely be assured playoff spots, whereas workforce Nos. 7-10 within the standings will enter the play-in event (April 16-19). Two groups in every convention will then emerge to fill out the eight-team subject, with the primary spherical of the playoffs beginning April 20.
Get the updates forward of the playoffs right here because the street to the NBA Finals kicks into full gear.
Who’s clinched within the East: Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks*, Cleveland Cavaliers*
Who’s clinched within the West: TBD
Who’s eradicated within the East: Detroit Pistons, Washington Wizards
Who’s eradicated within the West: Portland Path Blazers, San Antonio Spurs
*no less than clinched a spot for the play-in event, however not but the playoffs
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What they’ve clinched: Not less than a playoff spot
Boston turned the primary workforce to clinch a postseason spot in 2024. Even when the Celtics had been to lose each remaining sport within the common season, they’d be assured no less than the No. 6 spot within the Japanese Convention playoffs.
The Celtics have made the playoffs the earlier 9 seasons, shedding to the Miami Warmth within the convention finals final season. The final time they had been the highest general seed within the East was after the 2016-17 season, once they misplaced to the Cleveland Cavaliers within the convention finals.
What they’ve clinched: Not less than a play-in spot
The Bucks have locked up no less than an Japanese Convention play-in event spot even when they had been to lose all their remaining common season video games.
Milwaukee has made the playoffs the earlier seven seasons. The Bucks had been the highest seed final yr however suffered a first-round exit by the hands of the Miami Warmth. In 2022, they had been additionally the highest seed within the East, however they misplaced to the Boston Celtics within the convention finals.
What they’ve clinched: Not less than a play-in spot
The Cavs are additionally into the postseason (no less than the Japanese Convention play-in event) even when they had been to drop their remaining regular-season video games.
Cleveland made the playoffs final season, shedding within the first spherical to the New York Knicks. It was the Cavs’ return to postseason after lacking the earlier 4 editions, and their first look since profitable the 2016-17 NBA Finals, led by LeBron James.
