Warriors, Kings or Lakers: Who will get the Western Conference’s eighth seed?

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Warriors, Kings or Lakers: Who will get the Western Conference’s eighth seed?
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There's a three-way tie heading into the final weekend, with each team having one difficult and one easy opponent remaining.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — , in a desperate fourth-quarter attempt to bring the back against a team that always seems to crush them, powered through a pair of defenders for a layup but tweaked his right ankle while planting to get back on defense. It was a painful finish to another painful loss. Advertisement “I’m OK,” Fox said postgame Thursday. “It’s not like the one earlier. So I’ll be fine.” There’s the glimmer of positive news for a Kings team in a mini free fall.

They swept the Lakers 4-0 this season and went 2-2 against the Warriors but have a better division record. The Warriors hold the tiebreaker over the Lakers because of a 3-1 head-to-head record. So that’s the current order: Kings in eighth, Warriors in ninth, Lakers in 10th. Their three schedules break similarly. All three teams have a difficult opponent and a soft opponent remaining. The Kings get the Suns and Blazers, both at home. The Warriors get the Pelicans and , both at home.

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