How the NBA Playoffs Will Work

With the regular season now complete, it’s time to start looking ahead to the NBA playoffs. Here’s a quick overview of how they’ll work.

NBA Playoffs Format

The NBA playoffs are about to begin, and there have been some changes to the format this year. Here’s everything you need to know about how the NBA playoffs will work this season. The NBA playoffs will begin on April 15 and will end on June 16.

The NBA playoffs will begin on August 17th and will end no later than October 13th.

The NBA playoffs are a best-of-seven elimination tournament annually held after the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) regular season to ultimately decide the league’s champion. Eight teams from each of the league’s two conferences qualify for the playoffs.

The first round of the playoffs will be a best-of-seven series.

The first round of the playoffs will be a best-of-seven series. The team with the better record will host games one, two, five and seven. The other team will host games three, four and six.

If the two teams have identical records, then a coin flip will determine who gets home court advantage.

The second round of the playoffs is also a best-of-seven series. The conference semifinals are played between the winners of each first round series. The team with the better record will again host games one, two, five and seven.

The conference finals are played between the winners of each conference semifinal series. For these games, the team with the better record will host games one, two, six and seven. If there is a Game Seven, then the home team will be whoever had the better regular season record.

The NBA Finals are also a best-of-seven series. For these games, the team with the better regular season record will again host games one, two, six and seven.

The second round of the playoffs will be a best-of-seven series.

The first round of the playoffs will be a best-of-seven series. The second round of the playoffs will be a best-of-seven series. The Conference Finals will be a best-of-seven series. The NBA Finals will be a best-of-seven series.

The conference finals will be a best-of-seven series.

The conference finals will be a best-of-seven series. The team that has the better record in the regular season will have home-court advantage, meaning they’ll host Games 1, 2, 5 and 7 (if necessary). The lower-seeded team will host Games 3 and 4.

The NBA Finals will be a best-of-seven series.

Every round of the playoffs, from the first round to the NBA Finals, is a best-of-seven series. That means that the team that wins four games first advances to the next round, and the other team is eliminated.

For the first round of the playoffs, the seedings determine which team has home-court advantage. The higher-seeded team plays at home for games one, two, five and seven (if necessary), while the lower-seeded team hosts games three, four and six (if necessary).

In the second round and Conference Finals, home-court advantage goes to the team with the better record in the regular season — regardless of seeding.

Finally, in the NBA Finals, home-court advantage goes to the team that had a better record in the regular season.

If two teams have identical records, then a coin flip will determine who gets home court advantage.

NBA Playoff Seeding

The NBA playoffs are not only one of the most exciting times of the year for basketball fans, but also one of the most confusing. With seeding and home-court advantage at stake, it’s important to understand how the playoffs work. Let’s break it down.

The seeding for the NBA playoffs will be determined by each team’s record in the regular season.

The NBA playoffs are a best-of-seven elimination tournament annually held after the conclusion of the regular season. The playoffs begin in early April and end in late May, with the NBA Finals held in June. Eight teams from each conference (Eastern and Western), regardless of divisional alignment, qualify for the playoffs. A tiebreaker system is used to decide which team receives the higher seeding if two or more teams have identical records; if three or more teams have identical records, the tied teams enter a mini-tournament to determine who receives the higher seeding.

The eight teams with the best records in each conference will qualify for the playoffs.

The eight teams with the best records in each conference will qualify for the playoffs. The conference seeding will be determined by each team’s record. The team with the best record in a conference will be seeded first, and the team with the worst record will be seeded eighth.

In addition to the eight conference qualifiers, the NBA will also invite four “wild card” teams – two from each conference – to participate in the playoffs. These teams will be seeded seventh and eighth in their respective conferences.

The NBA playoffs will begin with four best-of-seven “first round” series, featuring the following matchups:

Conference Quarterfinals:
1) First Seed vs. Eighth Seed
2) Second Seed vs. Seventh Seed
3) Third Seed vs. Sixth Seed
4) Fourth Seed vs. Fifth Seed

Conference Semifinals:
1) Winner of 1-8 series vs. Winner of 4-5 series 2) Winner of 2-7 series vs. Winner of 3-6 series

The team with the best record in each conference will be seeded first, the team with the second-best record will be seeded second, and so on.

There are a total of eight teams in each conference that make the playoffs. The team with the best record in each conference will be seeded first, the team with the second-best record will be seeded second, and so on.

The first round of the playoffs is a best-of-seven series. The team that is seeded first in each conference will play the team that is seeded eighth, the team that is seeded second will play the team that is seeded seventh, and so on.

The teams that win their first-round series will advance to the conference semifinals. The conference semifinals are also a best-of-seven series, and they are played between the four remaining teams in each conference.

The winners of the conference semifinals will advance to the conference finals. The conference finals are also a best-of-seven series, and they are played between the two remaining teams in each conference.

The winner of each conference final will advance to the NBA Finals. The NBA Finals is a best-of-seven series, and it is played between the two remaining teams in each conference.

NBA Playoff Bracket

The first round of the NBA playoffs will feature the following matchups: the Los Angeles Lakers will take on the Portland Trail Blazers, the Houston Rockets will battle the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Golden State Warriors will clash with the Memphis Grizzlies, and the San Antonio Spurs will go head-to-head with the Dallas Mavericks.

The NBA playoff bracket will be determined by the results of the first round of the playoffs.

The NBA playoff bracket will be determined by the results of the first round of the playoffs. The eight teams with the best record in each conference will qualify for the playoffs. The team with the best record in each conference will be seeded first, the team with the second-best record will be seeded second, and so on.

The first round of the playoffs will be a best-of-seven series. The team with the better record will be seeded higher and will have home-court advantage. The first two games of the series will be played at the higher-seeded team’s home court, and games three through seven (if necessary) will alternate between home courts.

If a series is tied after six games, then a seventh game will be played to determine a winner. This game will also be played at the higher-seeded team’s home court.

The team with the best record in each conference will be matched up against the team with the eighth-best record in that conference.

The first round of the playoffs will be a best-of-seven series. The team with the better record will have home-court advantage, meaning they will host Games 1, 2, 5 and 7 (if necessary). The team with the worse record will host Games 3, 4 and 6 (if necessary).

The four teams that advance out of the first round will be reseeded according to their regular season records. The team with the best record will be matched up against the team with the worst record of the four remaining teams, regardless of conference. The second-best remaining team will play the third-best remaining team.

The winners of those two series will advance to the conference finals, where they will compete in a best-of-seven series. Again, the team with the better regular season record will have home-court advantage.

The winners of each conference final will advance to the NBA Finals, which is also a best-of-seven series. The team with the better regular season record will have home-court advantage in this round as well.

The team with the second-best record in each conference will be matched up against the team with the seventh-best record in that conference.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The NBA playoffs are a best-of-seven elimination tournament annually held after the NBA regular season to determine the league’s champion.

In each round, the losing team is eliminated from the playoff bracket. The winning team in each round advances to the next round, until the final round, whose winner is crowned the NBA champion. In 2016, the NBA Finals reached its seventh game for the first time since 2013.

formats have included best-of-five (1947–1948; 1957–1970; 1985–1987), best-of-seven (since 1951), and best-of-nine (1968 and 1969).

The team with the third-best record in each conference will be matched up against the team with the sixth-best record in that conference.

The Western Conference bracket will feature the Los Angeles Lakers (1) squaring off against the Portland Trail Blazers (8), the Los Angeles Clippers (2) taking on the Dallas Mavericks (7), the Denver Nuggets (3) playing the Utah Jazz (6) and the Houston Rockets (4) going up against the Oklahoma City Thunder (5).

In the Eastern Conference, it will be the Milwaukee Bucks (1) vs. the Orlando Magic (8), the Toronto Raptors (2) vs. the Brooklyn Nets (7), the Boston Celtics (3) vs. the Philadelphia 76ers (6) and finally, in a much-anticipated matchup, the Miami Heat (4) will face off against Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks (5).

The team with the fourth-best record in each conference will be matched up against the team with the fifth-best record in that conference.

Here’s a look at the NBA playoff bracket, which will be updated as results come in:

The team with the fourth-best record in each conference will be matched up against the team with the fifth-best record in that conference. The winner of that series will take on the conference’s No. 1 seed in the second round.

The team with the best regular-season record in each conference is guaranteed to start the playoffs at home. All other seeds are determined by record, with ties broken by head-to-head matchup results and then division record (if two teams are in the same division). Conference affiliation does not matter when determining playoff seeding.

The first two rounds of the playoffs are played within each conference, meaning there can be no inter-conference matchups until the Conference Finals. The NBA Finals pit the Eastern Conference champion against the Western Conference champion.