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The NBA season culminates in the playoffs, but getting there requires understanding the regular season standings. Here’s a breakdown:

Regular Season Standings

The NBA has two conferences: the Eastern and Western Conference. Each conference contains 15 teams. Teams play an 82-game regular season.

How Standings are Determined: A team’s standing is primarily based on its winning percentage (wins divided by games played). The higher the winning percentage, the higher the ranking.

Importance of Standings: Standings determine playoff seeding and home-court advantage. The higher a team is seeded, the easier their potential playoff matchups should be, and the more home games they’ll have.

Playoff Qualification

Automatic Qualifiers: The top six teams in each conference, based on their regular season record, automatically qualify for the playoffs.

Play-In Tournament: Teams ranked 7th through 10th in each conference participate in a play-in tournament to determine the final two playoff spots.

Play-In Tournament Structure:

• The 7th and 8th seeds play each other. The winner earns the 7th seed in the playoffs.
• The 9th and 10th seeds play each other. The loser is eliminated.
• The loser of the 7th/8th game plays the winner of the 9th/10th game. The winner earns the 8th seed in the playoffs.

Playoff Format

Bracket: The playoffs are a bracket-style tournament. Each conference has its own bracket.

Seeding: Teams are seeded 1 through 8 based on their regular season record within their conference. The 1st seed plays the 8th seed, the 2nd seed plays the 7th seed, and so on.

Series Format: All playoff series are best-of-seven. The team that wins four games first advances to the next round.

Home-Court Advantage: The higher-seeded team in each series has home-court advantage, meaning they host four of the seven potential games (Games 1, 2, 5, and 7).

Playoff Rounds

The playoffs consist of four rounds:

1. First Round: 1 vs. 8, 2 vs. 7, 3 vs. 6, 4 vs. 5
2. Conference Semifinals: Winners of the first round matchups play each other.
3. Conference Finals: Winners of the Conference Semifinals play each other to determine the conference champion.
4. NBA Finals: The Eastern Conference Champion plays the Western Conference Champion to determine the NBA Champion.

The team that wins the NBA Finals wins the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy.

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