The Nuggets advance and retreat freely, the Warriors are on the verge of double happiness and promotion to ninth, and the Lakers are resigned to fate!

On April 12, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued to be in full swing! Today, the league only scheduled five games, of which Western teams participated in three of them: the Pelicans defeated the Kings 135-123, the Warriors defeated the Trail Blazers 100-92, and the Rockets lost to the Jazz 121-124. However, only two games are related to the Western Conference playoff rankings, but it is the birth of the results of these two games that has triggered another change in the pattern of the Western Conference playoffs! The chaotic situation of the Wild West is really not the same every day, one day at a time, and it is really difficult to decide until the final game is over.

At present, the Denver Nuggets are in first place in the West with 56 wins and 24 losses, one win ahead of the second Timberwolves and third Thunder! Although the lead is only one win, this gives them the absolute initiative in selecting first-round opponents! Next, they only need one win in the remaining two games to lock up the first place in the West, so that they will have an absolute home court advantage over Western teams in the playoffs. Of course, they can also give up the first place in the West and drop to the second and third places easily! The main thing is to see who the sixth and seventh potential teams in the West are. In short, the Nuggets are now advancing and retreating freely, while the second Timberwolves and the third Thunder behind them can only look at the Nuggets' faces!

The fourth Clippers and the fifth Mavericks have been locked into first-round opponents, but it has not yet been determined who will have home-court advantage. But overall, the Clippers seem to have a better chance of winning, with the two teams currently separating the two teams by one win, with the Clippers' final two opponents being the Jazz and the Rockets. The Mavericks, on the other hand, are the Pistons and the Thunder, and the schedule is much more difficult than the Clippers! If nothing else, the Clippers will start the playoffs with the fourth place in the West.

Fifth, the Pelicans defeated the Kings by 12 points today to send their opponents to two consecutive defeats, which can be said to directly turn the bottom half of the Western Conference top 10 completely upside down! After this game, the Pelicans' record came to 48-32, which allowed them to establish a one-win lead over the Eighth Suns. While directly kicking the Kings out of the top-six competition in the West, they also sent a strong opponent to the Lakers and Warriors! Next, the only thing the Pelicans have to do is to do their best to prevent the Suns from overtaking at the corner. The Suns' remaining two games are tough games, and they have little chance of winning against the Kings and Timberwolves!

In the last two regular season games, the Western Conference play-off zone has become the most lively battlefield in the West! The Kings lost to the Pelicans today and missed the top six in the West, officially joining the play-in zone! The 10th Warriors beat the Trail Blazers to win three consecutive victories, thus completing the overtake of the Lakers and rising to ninth in the West. At present, the Kings, Warriors, and Lakers have a record of 45 wins and 35 losses, and the three teams will start the final showdown against the eighth place in the West at the same time.

The Warriors were a double happy day today, in addition to surpassing the Lakers to move to ninth, they also received a big gift from the sixth Pelicans! The Pelicans killed the Kings, which gave the Warriors unlimited hope of hitting the eighth. At present, the eighth king and the tenth Lakers are two consecutive defeats, and the Warriors are in a three-game winning streak, and they are determined to win eighth in the West!