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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.
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.
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.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs is the annual elimination tournament held to determine the league champion.The four-round, best-of-seven tournament is held after the league's regular season and its preliminary postseason tournament, the NBA play-in tournament.
From the current seeds to all the potential tiebreakers, this is how the NBA play-in tournament works.
(In the play-in, which begins on Tuesday, the seventh- and eighth-place teams play a single game. The winner is the No. 7 seed; the loser faces the winner of a game between the ninth- and 10th ...
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.
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.