With the Warriors 100-92 Trail Blazers and Pelicans 135-123 today, the Warriors surpassed the Lakers and rose to 9th place in the West, and the Pelicans stabilized their 6th place in the West.
At the moment, each team has only 2 regular season games left, but the final standings of the 10 teams in the playoff & playoff qualification zone are still undecided, which is really outrageous.
1. No. 1 in the West: The Nuggets are one win ahead of the Timberwolves and Thunder behind them, and will face the Spurs and Grizzlies next, and the two wins will lock the No. 1 in the West. If the record is consistent with the Thunder, according to the regular season record this season, the Nuggets will be ranked behind the Thunder.
2. 4-5 in the West: At present, the Clippers are one win ahead of the Mavericks, and they will face the Jazz and Rockets next, and winning one of them can lock the 4th place in the West and determine the home court advantage in the first round of the playoffs.
3. No. 6 in the West: At present, the Pelicans are one win ahead of the Suns, and the next thing is to face the Warriors and Lakers, and the latter will face the Kings and Timberwolves, and the rest of the schedule of the two teams is a hard battle. The Pelicans only need to win one of these games and the Suns lose one game to lock up the sixth place in the West, and if the two teams end up with the same record, the Suns will overtake the Pelicans in the ranking based on their head-to-head record this season.
4. 7-10 in the West: The ranking in this interval is even more chaotic, and there are too many situations to give examples one by one. Tomorrow the Suns and Kings, Pelicans and Warriors will face each other, and the Lakers also have games, and the rankings will be clearer after the game. If the Lakers want to move up to 8th place in the West, they need the Kings and Warriors to lose while winning the Grizzlies.
This season's Western Conference is really too competitive, maybe it really won't be until the end of the last game day to determine the final standings, have you ever seen such a situation?