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The NBA conference finals are here for the 2024 NBA playoffs.. In the Eastern Conference, the 1-seed Boston Celtics beat the 4-seed Cleveland Cavaliers to advance to the conference finals against ...
Here’s the updated bracket and schedule for today, May 5. NBA playoffs schedule today. Orlando Magic at Cleveland Cavaliers (Series tied, 3-3); 12 p.m. (CT) on ESPN. Saturday’s NBA playoffs scores
The NBA Play-In tournament allows the four teams ranked seventh through 10th at the end of the regular season the opportunity to compete for the final two spots in each conference’s playoff bracket.
The result was that each conference would have three divisions of five teams each, and the winner of each division was guaranteed a top-three playoff seed. This would change slightly after the 2005–06 season; while division winners still receive automatic playoff berths, they are guaranteed a top- four seed, as described below.
The NBA first awarded conference championship trophies in 2001. [4] In 2022, both were redesigned, and named the Bob Cousy Trophy for the Eastern Conference and the Oscar Robertson Trophy for the Western Conference, in honor of two men who were instrumental in developing and advancing the players' labor union, the National Basketball Players Association.
The NBA first started awarding an Eastern Conference championship trophy during the 2000–01 season, renaming it after Hall of Famer Bob Cousy in the 2021–22 season. [1] Also in 2021–22, the league began awarding the Larry Bird Trophy to the Eastern Conference Finals Most Valuable Player , named after Hall of Famer Larry Bird .
Since the Nos. 1 and 2 seeds in both conferences will wait on opponents to emerge from the play-in tournament, the 4-5 matchup in the Eastern Conference is the last major domino to fall on Sunday.
The 76ers were 29-13, just a half-game out of second place, after the reigning MVP scored a franchise-record 70 points in a victory at San Antonio on Jan. 22. But he needed left knee surgery in early February, with Philadelphia tumbling down the standings in his absence and needing to win a play-in game just to make the playoffs as a No. 7 seed.