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The 2024 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2023–24 season.The playoffs began on April 20 and concluded on June 17 with the Boston Celtics winning the 2024 NBA Finals for their 18th championship, the most in NBA history.
The field for the 2023-24 NBA Playoffs is set.. Up first is the play-in tournament, a single-elimination format that'll decide the No. 7 and No. 8 seed for each conference.
The brackets are much larger than those in North American professional leagues—while no more than 16 teams qualify for the postseason in any major North American league (this is the case in the NBA and NHL), 68 teams (out of over 350) advance to the NCAA men's tournament, with most bracket contests involving 64 of these teams.
The 2023 playoffs also marked the first time two teams seeded 7th or lower won a playoff series in a single postseason, and the first time two teams seeded 7th or lower reached the Conference Finals. The 1956–57 St. Louis Hawks , 1958–59 Minneapolis Lakers and the 1980–81 Houston Rockets are the only teams with losing records (34–38, 33 ...
The bracket for the 2024 Emirates NBA Cup's knockout round is officially set, and it features only two of the eight quarterfinalists from last year's in-season tournament. The Milwaukee Bucks, New ...
During the knockout rounds, on the days where no NBA Cup games are scheduled — Dec. 12, 13, 15 and 16 — the 22 teams who didn’t qualify for the knockouts will each play two regular-season games.
In American team sports, the NFL playoffs and WNBA playoffs employ re-seeding, the NBA playoffs and the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament do not, the Stanley Cup Playoffs used re-seeding between 1975 and 1981 and again from 1994 and 2013, the MLS Cup Playoffs used reseeding until 2018
The booby prizes are berths in the double-elimination bracket of the play-in tournament. (In the play-in, which begins on Tuesday, the seventh- and eighth-place teams play a single game.