The NBA regular season is coming to an end, the Suns and Grizzlies lock in the league first and second places, and the Heat lock in the top four in the East, but the ranking is still suspenseful. The Clippers qualified for the playoffs, and the rest-offs for another Los Angeles team, the Lakers, had little hope. The rankings of the Nets, Warriors and other teams have not yet been determined. After the end of the regular season, there are two rounds of play-offs, the east and west quarterfinals will be officially released, and in the first round of the playoffs, whether there will be strong dialogue and the emergence of black seven and black eight, is also the focus of external attention.
At present, the NBA regular season card position battle is very exciting, although the number of games left in the regular season is not much, but each team does not know their opponents in the first round of the playoffs, it is obvious that no one wants to meet a strong team in the first round, so each team has a small nine-nine in the air, in addition to thinking about their own ranking, they are still paying attention to who the next opponent is?
Durant said in an interview that he didn't think about who the opponent in the playoffs was, and he didn't care. As a top superstar, Durant does not care who the opponent is, but it is obvious that other teams do not necessarily think so, after all, meeting the Nets in the first round of the playoffs will be a big problem.
The Nets are currently ranked tenth in the East, and like the Hornets, after losing to the Hawks in the last round, they fell from eighth to tenth, and the playoffs are likely to start from a 9-10 card battle, and if you want to advance to the playoffs, you must win all to get eighth. Of course, it is not ruled out that the Hawks and Hornets will drop the chain next, and the Nets will win all to win the eighth place in the East, so they can compete for seventh place in the first round of the playoffs.
So if the Nets advance to the playoffs, the ranking will be seventh or eighth, against the second and second places in the East, the Heat are currently ranked first in the East, and the Celtics surpass the Bucks in second place, and one of these two teams is most likely the First Round of the Nets' playoff history. Previously, the Bucks' continuous rotation and unstable performance, giving up the top two positions, was also ridiculed by many people as "acting", but did not want to meet in the first round of the playoffs, after all, the Raptors and other teams compared to the Nets, it is much easier to deal with.
The Warriors' opponents are not in addition, after two consecutive wins they have basically locked in the top four seats, the first round of the playoffs have home advantage, and Curry will also return, no one wants to meet the Warriors who met such a strong warrior in the first round. The Warriors' ranking is also not determined, they are 1 win ahead of the Lone Rangers, and their record against each other is not as good as that of the Lone Rangers, so once the Warriors lose and the Lone Rangers win, the Warriors have to give up the third place.
The Warriors' next opponents are highly likely to be one of the Nuggets and Jazz, both teams in a 5th-6th place card battle. The Warriors still have a psychological advantage against the Jazz, after all, the Warriors who did not have Curry some time ago just defeated the Jazz in a big reversal after falling behind by 21 points at one point, and the performance was excellent.
So the NBA's card battle is very exciting, in addition to paying attention to their own rankings, the opponents in the first round are also very important, like the top ranked teams, do not rule out that they will pick opponents, such as last season's Clippers in order to avoid the Lakers, consecutive losses to the bottom of the Thunder and Rockets, the result really avoided the Lakers, "selected" the Lone Ranger.