Analysis The Race for Home-Court Advantage - 25/26 Playoffs Seed Tracker

[DTW]

I don't understand Nuggets logic otherwise. Like the Thunder are obstacle and will be there anyway, might as well take on the challenge a round earlier while your key players are still fresh and less dinged up.

Not saying I necessarily agree, but the logic in general is likely to avoid the favorite as long as possible in the hopes that the more games they have to play before you face them, the greater chance of them suffering a key injury or more.

 

[wEmBoY]

Wolves losing to the magic?

 

[scott]

Minnesota is getting healthy and should have both McDaniels and Ant back by Round 1.

I know Denver is pretty much locked into the 3rd seed but I’d have preferred the hospital lakers > OKC path than the Wolves > Spurs path to the WCF if I were them tbh.

If Denver likes that path, I think it would be pretty easy for them to giftwrap the #3 seed to the Rockets.

I think they (and us, for that matter) probably don't care and will just worry about themselves and play whomever is in front of them.

 

[Mugen]

If Denver likes that path, I think it would be pretty easy for them to giftwrap the #3 seed to the Rockets.

I think they (and us, for that matter) probably don't care and will just worry about themselves and play whomever is in front of them.

Agree that they probably don't care. But there's a pretty significant disparity between the Wolves and the hospital Lakers, whereas we're pretty much locked into playing the Suns tbh.

 

[spurraider21]

Wolves now locked into 6th seed, so they fall on our side of the bracket

 

[Fabbs]

You buying Christie just had a brain fart mistake?

Ordered an intentional foul of Curry with 3 minutes remaining in tight game.

Sources: Kings' late foul was tactical error, not tanking

The NBA is looking into what team sources say was a strategy mistake by Kings coach Doug Christie -- and not tanking tactics -- during Tuesday's loss to the Warriors.

www.espn.com

 

[spurraider21]

- even if the rockets win out, they project to only have a 30% chance of securing the 3 seed
- the lakers 3 remaining games are against the warriors, suns, and jazz, which are all winnable, but they are of course reeling without Luka/Reaves
- meanwhile, Denver is going to spank memphis today, but otherwise has remaining games vs OKC and then us

houston loses all tiebreaks, either head to head vs Lakers or Denver, as well as a hypothetical 3-way tie

right now it looks like we will have Nuggets/Wolves on our bracket as opposed to lakers/rockets... which just a week or two ago looked like the exact opposite

 

[ace3g]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2042021864197816422

 

[wEmBoY]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2042021864197816422

BS. It should’ve have been available on league pass. Now its not.