The regular season concludes with the Oklahoma City Thunder earning the top seed out West and the play-in tournament set to start. The Los Angeles Lakers will face the New Orleans Pelicans in a familiar matchup, while the Sacramento Kings will host the Golden State Warriors.
The last day of the regular season finalized seeding for the NBA playoffs and play-in tournament, with the Oklahoma City Thunder earning the top seed out West and the play-in set to begin on Tuesday.The eighth-seeded Lakers will face the No. 7 Pelicans in New Orleans, a familiar matchup after Los Angeles initiated that game by winning 124-108 in New Orleans on Sunday.
10 seed Atlanta Hawks traveling to Chicago to take on the ninth-seeded Bulls, a matchup that has been in the making for quite some time with neither team finishing within less than three games of another team in the standings. The Bulls won the season series 2-1, but the Hawks took the most recent contest, 113-101, on April 1.The winners of both 7-8 games will advance to the playoffs as No. 7 seeds to face the Denver Nuggets in the West and the New York Knicks in the East.
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