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The NBA play-in tournament is the preliminary National Basketball Association (NBA) postseason tournament. It determines the final two playoff seeds in the Eastern Conference and Western Conference and is played immediately prior to the NBA playoffs, which is the main tournament of the postseason and regarded by the league as separate from the play-in tournament.
The NBA play-in tournament features four teams in both the Western and Eastern Conference. Each season, the teams that finished with the No. 7-10 seeds go to the play-in format.
In the NBA Finals, the Rockets swept the Orlando Magic (57–25) in four games; in doing so, the Rockets defeated four teams that had won 50 or more games during the regular season (the Utah Jazz at 60–22, the Phoenix Suns at 59–23, the San Antonio Spurs at 62–20 and Orlando at 57–25), the first time a team had done so. As of now, the ...
A play-in game [1] is a game, usually played at the beginning of a tournament or just prior to the tournament depending on how the tournament is defined. In a play-in, the lowest qualifiers or participants who have earned conditional qualification compete for qualification to the main portion of the tournament.
From the current seeds to all the potential tiebreakers, this is how the NBA play-in tournament works.
NBA started play-in games to give more teams a chance to make playoffs, create late-season excitement, make more games meaningful and curb tanking.
In 2017, The Basketball Tournament's play-in games utilized the Elam Ending rules. Since the 2018 edition, the Elam Ending has been used in all games. Originally, the target score was seven points more than team leading or tie score; [6] since 2019, the target score is eight points more than the leading team's/tied score. [7]
The first international competition involving the NBA was a 1978 exhibition game in Tel Aviv, Israel between the Washington Bullets and Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv. [175] From 1987 to 1999 an NBA team played against championship club teams from Asia, Europe and South America in the McDonald's Championship. This tournament was won by the NBA ...