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The Brooklyn Nets defeated the Miami Heat on Saturday to leap again into the No. 6 seed and clinch the season tiebreaker over No. 7 Miami.
The Bucks, Celtics and 76ers have all clinched a playoff spot within the East. The Cleveland Cavaliers can clinch their playoff spot with a win over the Houston Rockets on Sunday.
Milwaukee and Boston have really clinched a top-four seed.
Below is a complete snapshot of the place issues stand within the Eastern Conference playoff and play-in races getting into play on Sunday. This put up will replace day by day all through the rest of the common season or till all seeds are clinched.
Reminder on how the play-in event works: No. 7 performs No. 8 and No. 9 performs No. 10. The winner of the 7-8 recreation will get the No. 7 seed, whereas the loser performs the winner of the 9-10 recreation for the No. 8 seed.
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NOTE: Our SportsLine mannequin, developed by predictive knowledge engineer Stephen Oh, simulates the whole season 10,000 instances to supply essentially the most unbiased and exact projections possible.
Clinched top-four seedProjected seed: 1Current first-round matchup: TBDTiebreaker vs. Boston: Tied 1-1 with one to playTiebreaker vs. Philadelphia: Sixers lead 2-1 with one to playClinched top-four seedProjected seed: 2Current first-round matchup: vs. Heat-Hawks play-in winnerTiebreaker vs. Milwaukee: Tied 1-1 with one to playTiebreaker vs. Philadelphia: Celtics clinchedTiebreaker vs. Cleveland: Cavs clinchedClinched playoff spotProjected seed: 3Current first-round matchup: vs. NetsTiebreaker vs. Milwaukee: Tied 1-1 with one to playTiebreaker vs. Philadelphia: Celtics clinchedTiebreaker vs. Cleveland: Sixers clinchedProjected seed: 4Current first-round matchup: vs. KnicksTiebreaker vs. Boston: Cavs clinchedTiebreaker vs. Philadelphia: Sixers clinched
Tiebreaker vs. New York: Knicks lead 2-1 with one to playTiebreaker vs. Brooklyn: Tied 1-1 with one to play
5. New York Knicks (42-33)
Projected seed: 5Current first-round matchup: at CavsTiebreaker vs. Cleveland: Knicks lead 2-1 with one to playTiebreaker vs. Brooklyn: Knicks at present personal by way of division win proportion
Tiebreaker vs. Miami: Knicks lead 2-1 with one to play
6. Brooklyn Nets (40-34)
Projected seed: 6Current first-round matchup: at 76ersTiebreaker vs. Cleveland: Tied 1-1 with one to playTiebreaker vs. New York: Knicks at present personal by way of division win proportion
Tiebreaker vs. Miami: Nets clinchedTiebreaker vs. Atlanta: Nets lead 2-1 with one to play
PLAY-IN TOURNAMENT
7. Miami Heat (40-35)
Projected seed: 7Current first-round matchup: vs. Hawks (play-in)Tiebreaker vs. New York: Knicks lead 2-1 with one to playTiebreaker vs. Brooklyn: Nets clinchedTiebreaker vs. Atlanta: Heat clinched
Tiebreaker vs. Toronto: Raptors lead 2-1 with one to playTiebreaker vs. Washington: Heat leads 2-1 with one to play
8. Atlanta Hawks (37-37)
Projected seed: 8Current first-round matchup: at Heat (play-in)Tiebreaker vs. Brooklyn: Nets lead 2-1 with one to playTiebreaker vs. Miami: Heat clinched
Tiebreaker vs. Toronto: Hawks clinchedTiebreaker vs. Washington: Hawks leads 2-1 with one to playTiebreaker vs. Chicago: Bulls lead 2-1 with one to play
9. Toronto Raptors (36-38)
Projected seed: 9Current first-round matchup: vs. Bulls (play-in)Tiebreaker vs. Miami: Raptors lead 2-1 with one to play
Tiebreaker vs. Atlanta: Hawks clinchedTiebreaker vs. Washington: Tied 1-1 with one to playTiebreaker vs. Indiana: Pacers clinchedTiebreaker vs. Chicago: Raptors clinched
10. Chicago Bulls (35-38)
Projected seed: 10Current first-round matchup: at Raptors (play-in)Tiebreaker vs. Toronto: Raptors clinchedTiebreaker vs. Washington: Bulls at present personal by way of convention win proportionTiebreaker vs. Indiana: Pacers clinched
OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
Projected seed: LotteryTiebreaker vs. Toronto: Tied 1-1 with one to playTiebreaker vs. Indiana: Pacers at present personal by way of convention win proportionTiebreaker vs. Chicago: Bulls at present personal by way of convention win proportion
12. Indiana Pacers (33-42)
Projected seed: LotteryTiebreaker vs. Toronto: Pacers clinchedTiebreaker vs. Washington: Pacers at present personal by way of convention win proportionTiebreaker vs. Chicago: Pacers clinched
